The Astrology Podcast

Transcript of Episode 237, titled:

2020 Year Ahead Horoscopes: Part 1: Aries – Virgo

With Chris Brennan and guests Leisa Schaim and Cam White

Episode originally released on January 14, 2020

Original episode URL:

https://theastrologypodcast.com/2020/01/14/2020-year-ahead-horoscopes-part-2-libra-pisces/

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Transcription released July 9th, 2026

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CHRIS BRENNAN: Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is The Astrology Podcast. In this episode, I’m gonna be giving rising sign forecasts for each of the signs of the zodiac, for the entirety of the year of 2020. So this was actually recorded as a series of livestreams on my YouTube channel in early January of 2020, but I decided to release an audio version. However, there’s so many rising sign forecasts that I had to break it up into two parts. So this first episode is going to be for rising signs Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, and Virgo. And then part two, which will be Episode 238, will be the rest of the signs of the zodiac. So I’ll read timestamps right now in just a moment, so you know where to jump forward to in this audio recording in the event that you wanna jump straight to your rising sign and not listen through all of the other signs of the zodiac as well. So the last thing is just that I primarily recommend listening to these from the perspective of your rising sign, which is the sign that your ascendant is located in, or secondarily, your Sun sign, especially if you were born during the day, or your Moon sign, especially if you were born at night. All right, so here are the timestamps for this episode. The rising for Aries begins at 2 minutes in this audio recording. The rising sign for Taurus begins at approximately 1-hour. Gemini begins at 2-hours-37-minutes. Cancer begins at approximately 3-hours-39-minutes. Leo begins at approximately 4-hours-49-minutes. And Virgo begins at 5-hours-56-minutes. Each lasts for about an hour or so. And sometimes I do them as solo presentations, while other times I’m joined by either astrologers Leisa Schaim or Cam White. All right, thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy the episode.

ARIES AND ARIES RISING

CB: Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, from theastrologypodcast.com. Joining me today is Leisa Schaim. Hey, Leisa.

LEISA SCHAIM: Hey, Chris.

CB: And we’re gonna be going through the horoscope for Aries and Aries rising for the entire year ahead and the entire year of 2020. So this is a bit of an experiment. We’re doing this as a livestream directly to YouTube first. I’ve only done livestream horoscopes once, back in February, and I think that was the last set of horoscopes I did. I’ve taken some time off, cuz it’s a lot to do—monthly horoscopes—but I did wanna start doing them again by just doing like larger increments of time. So we’re gonna try doing a full year ahead horoscope to look at the next 12 months. Cuz that feels a little bit more manageable when I have do like 12 of them.

LS: Yeah. And it’ll last for your whole year. You can refer back to it until 2021.

CB: Yeah. So some people are joining us in the chat. So thanks everyone for joining us. Let’s get some preliminary stuff out of the way. So I’m gonna do 12 of these videos. We’re starting to stream here at about 4:45 PM in Denver, Colorado, on Sunday, January 5, 2020. And I’m gonna livestream it, so that this video is gonna go live to YouTube as it’s being recorded. Then I’m gonna hit ‘stop’ and we’ll take a little break, and then we’ll start again and move on to Taurus. And we’re gonna go through each of the signs of the zodiac in order over the course of however the hell long it takes me to go through 12 of them.

LS: Yeah.

CB: So I don’t believe that you’re gonna be joining me for all 12 over the course of the next day or two. But you’re gonna help me get this boat launched at least, right?

LS: Yes, exactly. So I’ll stay here for Aries, and then we’ll see after that.

CB: Okay.

LS: Yeah.

CB: And your website is leisaschaim.com?

LS: It is.

CB: Okay. All right, let’s start jumping into it then by taking a look first at the artwork that my friend, Paula Belluomini, made for me for my astrology posters this year, which are available at TheaAstrologyPodcast.com/2020Posters. And this is the cyclogram or the circular astrological chart that has Aries as the rising sign, since for all of my horoscopes, we’re gonna be focusing on the rising sign. It’s okay if you read these horoscopes from the perspective of your Sun sign, if you’re an Aries, or even your Moon sign, if you were born at night, and your Moon is in Aries. But we would primarily recommend looking at these horoscopes from the perspective of your rising sign, if your ascendant is located in Aries, because that’s gonna give you the most accurate picture of the approach that we’re taking here. So if you don’t know your rising sign, you can go to Astro.com and pull up a copy of your birth chart there. And as long as you know your birth time, birth date, and location, you should be able to find out your ascendant or your rising sign.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Anything else I should say about that?

LS: Uh, no, you will need your exact birth time. So just make sure it’s pretty exact, cuz that’s the piece that really sets up your rising sign.

CB: Yeah. Ideally, you can get that from your birth certificate as the best-case scenario. Cuz sometimes people’s parents’ memories can be a little bit fuzzier than you expect.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

CB: All right, so this is the chart set for Aries rising, and this shows where the planets will start at the very beginning of the year and how far through the signs of the zodiac they will move over the course of the year. And we can see that some of the inner planets, like Mercury, will make a complete lap or a complete circuit around the 12 signs of the zodiac, with some occasional sort of interruptions. For example, when Mercury goes retrograde threes times during the course of the year for that three-week period each. But there’s other planets that are outer planets, that move much more slowly, like Saturn or Pluto or Neptune, that will largely stay in the same sign or maybe just move back and forth between two signs over the course of this year.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so do you wanna do those chronologically or more by theme?

CB: Let’s do it chronologically. Because I did wanna start early on with showing the Planetary Alignments Calendar for January, and I also wanted to switch over. And one of the things that we’re gonna be doing—since this is video—is actually looking at the transiting planets, and looking at the charts for different time periods. So why don’t we start with January. Cuz there’s already a lot going on in January. Like the year starts off kind of with a bang, and already has at this point, only five days into it.

LS: Yeah. Most definitely, I agree.

CB: Okay. So what should we start with for January? Or what’s the biggest alignment going on when it comes to Aries and those that have Aries rising especially?

LS: Yeah. So there’s three things that happen in early-to-mid-January, around January 10-12, right in a row, and they’re all pretty important. So first, there is a Uranus station in Taurus, and right after that there’s a Cancer eclipse, and then right after that there’s gonna be an exact Saturn-Pluto conjunction in Capricorn. So right away, a lot of the activity for the year is already highlighted in January for Aries rising, which is in both the career or supervisor’s area and the home and family area.

CB: Right. So the Full Moon eclipse that is taking place—the lunar eclipse is taking place in their 4th house of the home and the living situation.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

CB: So eclipses tend to work in six-month periods. So this could be something that was initiated six months ago, that sort of comes to culmination, where there’s something about your home and living situation, or perhaps your parents or your family that reaches a point of maturity or a sort of culmination at this time, for better or worse. That could be something positive. It could be something challenging. That’s just the idea of something coming to culmination at that time.

LS: Definitely. And these eclipses in Cancer and Capricorn have been happening for about a year. So it’s not a new thing, but it is an ongoing piece of the story. There’ll be another set in the summer that we’ll look at, too.

CB: Right. Six months from now.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

CB: So that’s been sort of an ongoing thing where it’s been bouncing back and forth, for the Aries rising people, between their 4th house, which is like their private life and their home and their living situation and their family, and Capricorn, which is their 10th house, which is their public life and their career and their public reputation and their overall life direction.

LS: Yeah, definitely. And there’s a lot of really intense focus, I would say. You know, both the eclipses are happening in the home and family and career area, as you mentioned. But the Capricorn career area is actually a more intense focus, I would say, because you not only have the Capricorn eclipse that just happened in late December, just before the year started, but also, the Saturn-Pluto conjunction. Saturn has been transiting in Capricorn since the end of 2017 and has about another year left there in your career area. So it’s a time when you’ve been putting a lot of focus or effort towards your career, potentially, either trying to work up to the next level or changing careers, one of the two. Pluto’s been there since 2008. So we’re about to hit the exact conjunction in early-to-mid-January here. So that’s kind of an intensification of that ongoing story that’s happening in your career area.

CB: Right. And it’s like for some people, it’s been two years now that Saturn has been in Capricorn, since it went into their 10th house of career. And they’ve got, basically, about a year to go, cuz Saturn will leave for the final time. They’re in the home stretch. They’re in the last third of this, and we’re starting to wrap that transit of Saturn through their 10th house of career up. And for some people that may have been a challenging time for career matters, where they may have encountered some setbacks or even some losses or some great difficulties and hardships in the area of career. Whereas for other people, it may have been a period where they had to put in a lot of hard work and things were more active and they had more responsibility than normal. But at the same time, they may have had more accomplishments and be able to reach higher points in their career than they have at any other time.

LS: Definitely. And oftentimes, even if it has been somewhat constructive, Saturn can still take some time to pay off. And so, I would say don’t lose hope if you’ve been putting in a lot of hard work into your career area, but you haven’t seen the payoff yet, cuz it still could be coming.

CB: Sure. Definitely. That’s good advice. So with Saturn, that’s gonna be an ongoing thing this year. We’re gonna come back to Saturn over the course of the year. Why don’t we just give those dates now, actually? I think it might make sense to give them now.

LS: Sure.

CB: So Saturn’s in Capricorn now, but it’s actually moving pretty quickly, and it’s going to leave that sign and move out of their 10th house of career and move into their 10th house of friends and allies and groups in March, when it goes into Aquarius.

LS: Yeah. And it’ll be there from late March until July 1 this year.

CB: Okay.

LS: And so, most of the year, it’ll be in Capricorn, but there’ll be a little dip into the first couple of degrees of Aquarius. And so, you’ll get a little preview of what that means for your friends and groups area, which will return at the end of 2020.

CB: Yeah, so let’s talk about what that might mean because that’s the beginning of like a three-year-long transit for them of Saturn going through their 11th house. It’s kind of the same theme of Saturn going any sign, which is sometimes you have setbacks. Sometimes there can be friendships that no longer serve a purpose in your life, where you see people that you used to be very close with, suddenly, that friendship not being as important, or having to reassess the importance of certain friendships and even say goodbye to certain friendships.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Other times, it can just be a period where while there may be greater tensions and work that you have to put into friendships or groups in general, it can be something that’s like productive and constructive in the long term, even if it’s not easy.

LS: Yeah, I would agree with all of that. I would add that sometimes it can be about your friends themselves going through harder times. Because some of the areas of your chart can indicate people in your life and it’s not necessarily about what you’re doing, but you could somehow be tangentially related to that. So it can be either/or of those. But yeah, oftentimes, Saturn transiting through the 11th gives you a little heads up that something about your friends or groups area of your life has come to a natural end or needs patching up, or all of those kinds of Saturn, sort of restructuring-and-effort kind of keywords.

CB: Yeah. And here’s the significations of the 12 houses, from our houses poster, which also is with the rest of the posters this year, that we talked about in some of those episodes recently, in the two-part series on the significations of the houses. But for the 10th house, we have things like career, actions, reputation, and public, and for the 11th house, friends, groups, alliances, and hopes. So those are the major areas of your chart that are getting activated by some of those long-term Saturn transits this year. And basically, what happens is for Aries rising people, Saturn will be transiting your 10th house until March, then it’ll go into your 11th house of friends. So suddenly there is a little bit of a freeing up of some of the energy and a lightening up of energy in your 10th house of career, but then things get a little bit more serious for the friends and groups sector of your life for several months. And eventually that’ll end in—what is it? June?

LS: July 1.

CB: July 1, okay. So what happens—i f we look at the actual chart, and we move it forward by, let’s say, monthly increments—is we start off the year in January and February with Saturn going through the end of Capricorn. Then by March, at some point, it switches into Aquarius and your 11th house.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: One of the things that’s a little tricky about that in March is that it happens also with Mars going into that sign at the same time, right?

LS: Yeah, definitely. Pretty soon, right after Saturn ingresses into Aquarius, Mars moves in and joins it. And so, there’s kind of like a little burst of like frustration energy or something that needs extra attention right at the beginning of that transit, in your 11th house.

CB: Yeah, it sort of implies that whether you have a day chart or a night chart, like everybody—for that first, what, month or two, after those planets go in, in March—is gonna be experiencing maybe a little bit of tension, best-case scenario, or some tumultuousness in the area of friends and groups for a couple of months, starting in March.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

CB: One of the positive things, though, that’s worth pointing out here and I don’t wanna overlook is while Mars gets out of Capricorn, and while Saturn gets out of Capricorn for a few months, Jupiter is transiting through Capricorn for the entirety of this year.

LS: Yeah.

CB: So there’s this interesting balance this year where for the past two years, the Aries rising people have been feeling kind of the heaviness of Saturn going through their 10th house of career and some of the greater responsibility or restrictions or just hassles that come along with that. But this year, for one year, with Jupiter going through Capricorn, there’s an additional energy of like growth and expansion, and potentially, for some people, especially the ones with day charts, a sort of abundance of Jupiter going through their 10th house. So there might be some growth happening in the area of career as well.

LS: Definitely. So you could also be seeing some payoffs from that, from your Saturnian efforts. It’s all in Capricorn, so it’s still gonna be more serious, you know, and more like long-term growth and that kind of thing. It’s not necessarily gonna be like a party, but it can still be like a ramping up of your professional efforts.

CB: Not a party in Capricorn.

LS: Uh, a very serious party.

CB: A very serious party, okay. Maybe if there’s a lot of hard work and then you can party.

LS: Yeah, exactly.

CB: Okay. So that’s good. That’s a positive transit for the 10th house, that’s definitely offsetting and balancing some of the challenging stuff that’s going on with the 10th house.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah. And, you know, while they’re both moving into the 11th house at that time, it’s actually helpful to get Mars out of the 10th house, potentially, because Mars and Saturn there can be more struggle, you know, temporarily.

CB: Right.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Okay. Other stuff in January. We didn’t touch on the Uranus station.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So that’s happening in January, back in Taurus. This is happening in the financial sector of the chart for those with Aries rising. It’s part of a new transit that we just moved into, what, fully last year? About a year ago?

LS: May 2018 was the first ingress. And then 2019 was the last time out of Aries and fully into Taurus for about seven years.

CB: Okay. So we can see Uranus. It’s a very slow planet. It takes like 80-some-plus-years to go around the entire zodiac, for about seven years at least per sign.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So this is a long-term transit of Uranus going through your 2nd house of finances and resources. And Uranus can sometimes be a little bit disruptive. It can cause unexpected and somewhat sudden changes when it comes to financial matters, when it’s going through that sector of your chart.

LS: Yeah, definitely. It’s interesting, though, that it’s kind of tied in. With Aries rising, you have that Saturn-and-Pluto transit and Jupiter through your 10th house of career. And so, I can see at least for some people with Aries rising, you may very well have that tied in by, say, getting a raise or getting like a promotion, or things like that. Because the keywords are like your income changing and, you know, long-term efforts in your career.

CB: Sure. So that Uranus transit’s gonna be going on for a long time, for like seven years. So it’s oftentimes more long-term things that are gonna be happening over the course of most of the next decade. But certainly, when Uranus stations here, around the 9th or the 10th of January, there’s an intensification of some of those energies. So if you have any personal planets around, let’s say, 2° of Taurus or 2° of the other fixed signs, that certainly could be activating that for you personally.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, it’s gonna station at about 2.5° of Taurus. And so, for the next while, especially when Uranus stations—which will be twice this year, in January and then in August—it will be an intensification of that either unexpected energy or up-and-down energy with regard to your income.

CB: I mean, sometimes that can be a good thing, cuz it can mean like finding new and innovative ways to make a living.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Integrating technology more into your financial portfolio.

LS: Definitely.

CB: And other things like that. Like seeking out unique ways to make a living that might be like off the beaten path or something you’re not used to from before.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely. It can be a change in the type of work you’re doing or how you make a living. It can also be a change in moving more towards self-employment, if you’re interested in that. You know, that can be proactive or reactive. Like it can either be you want to be self-employed or something sort of forces you into trying that avenue.

CB: Right.

LS: Because Uranus has a lot to do with episodic income that’s not steady, 9-5, 40 hours a week, and so, that’s why it can coincide with that.

CB: Okay, cool. All right, let’s move on.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: I think we’re good for January.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Okay. Let’s move on from January, and let’s take a look later in the year. So February, there’s not a ton going on, but there is a Mercury retrograde. I mean, that is the point where Mars goes into their 10th house on like the 18th.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So that could be a little bit of challenges coming up in the sphere of career, especially for those with day charts.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And that’s about a month-long transit.

LS: Yeah, I would say that’s probably the most important thing for Aries rising, for February.

CB: For February.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Is just Mars ingressing on the 16th of the month, into their 10th house, and the potential. Mars can sometimes create great energy, but sometimes it can create like conflict in the area that it’s going through.

LS: Yeah, exactly. And if you have a day chart, that’s more the case. If you have a night chart, that’s just putting more attention or effort towards your career, whereas the Saturn one has been kind of the longer-term challenge for you.

CB: Sure. Let’s see, Mercury’s going retrograde pretty much at the same time. Like right on the same day, I believe. Is that correct? Mars ingresses on the 16th of February. Mercury is actually stationing retrograde, I believe, in Pisces.

LS: Let’s just double-check.

CB: Let me pull that up here, too.

LS: Yeah, that’s true.

CB: Okay. So our first Mercury retrograde of the year occurs on February 16.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: It’s happening in Pisces conjunct Neptune, which is a little tricky, cuz sometimes when Mercury’s connected with Neptune, it can amplify the mistaken miscommunication-type significations of a Mercury retrograde.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: It’s happening in their 12th house, which is a weird place, because sometimes the 12th house is like things that you’re not aware of or that you can’t see. It could indicate miscommunication with people that you don’t get along with. Like the 12th house traditionally has to do with enemies.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So it could be a period where you might wanna be a little extra careful about the people that you’re trying to communicate with and not accidentally saying or doing something through a miscommunication, that creates a falling out between you and another person.

LS: Definitely. And I would also echo that, from the 12th house, can kind of intensify that Mercury retrograde signification of just like it can be a blind spot for you.

CB: Mm-hmm.

LS: So that could amp up a little bit, you know, of just not seeing something correctly, temporarily.

CB: Right. So that Mercury retrograde is like halfway done at the cazimi, the Sun-Mercury conjunction on the 25th. And then it’s completely done by the beginning of March—it looks like March 4—when Mercury stations direct, eventually, in Aquarius on, actually, the 9th of March.

LS: Yeah, it’ll station around 28 Aquarius.

CB: So that’s really funny. It actually retrogrades back into their 11th house

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So some of the communication. It could be revisiting something with a friend or with a group that you had initiated previously and thought was finished, but that you have to come back to revisit or resolve for some reason.

LS: Right. Yeah, I would agree with that. And that also may potentially tie into like setting the stage for that later-in-the-month Saturn ingress and Mars ingress into Aquarius, into the 11th house of friends and groups.

CB: Okay.

LS: Since that kind of triggers the same area. And I did wanna say earlier, also, for some people, certainly not everyone, but for some people, the Saturn transit dipping into Aquarius—the house of friends and groups—can be casual friends or networks of people. It’s not usually like your best friends. But sometimes it can also be—if this is applicable to your life—professional groups, particularly with Saturn, because Saturn is about formal things and concretizing. And so, with that going into Aquarius in late March, after the long transit of a few years through the career house, that could easily mean, at least for some people with Aries rising, you know, working on your career for a while and then extending that out to, you know, joining professional groups or being on a board or different things like that.

CB: Okay. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. All right, so we’re getting into March. March, of course, we wrap up the Mercury retrograde. Saturn goes into Aquarius, which is what you were just talking about, on the 21st of March. So that’s a major shift. Mars moves into Aquarius. So it gets out of the 10th house of career. Basically, both of the difficult planets get out of the house of career towards the end of March. So there’s like this sense of alleviation that comes in the career sector for the Aries rising people around this time.

LS: Right.

CB: Which is positive in terms of career, but might have some tensions in terms of friends and groups.

LS: Definitely. And it’ll be an alleviation for a few months. Saturn will come back.

CB: Right. It’s not quite finished. There’s some final things you have to wrap up.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right, that takes us into April. We’ve got like a Jupiter-Pluto conjunction in Capricorn, in their 10th house. So that’s sort of like the height of—if that’s a good transit for you—maybe reaching the height of it or have the expectations and things surrounding it sort of blown out of proportion, but potentially in a good way.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, Jupiter-Pluto together can be reaching for new heights. It can be a greater-than-usual urge for power or expansion in your life, and that would be particular to the career area.

CB: Right. The drive for expansion and to succeed and reach the highest point in some sense.

LS: Mm-hmm. It’s kind of like super-powered at that time.

CB: Okay. Let’s see, what else we got in April? We’ve got lunations. We’re skipping over all of the shorter-term stuff. We’re mainly focusing here on the long-term stuff in terms of outer planets and things because we’re gonna go through, in the monthly forecast, with Austin and Kelly, that we do at the end of each month, on The Astrology Podcast. We always go through the minute details of each one. So here, we’re trying to get more of like a bird’s eye view, so this doesn’t take like 10 hours per horoscope.

LS: Definitely.

CB: Okay.

LS: So there will be quicker-moving things, but we’re trying to get the highlights here.

CB: Yeah. So eventually, we get into May. Saturn—oh, we’re already in the middle of the second Mercury retrograde at this point, right?

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Is that correct?

LS: Let’s see. So Mercury—

CB: Why is it saying—maybe we have a typo here on the thing. It’s saying it conjoins the Sun. Oh, that’s the direct conjunction, okay.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: We have Saturn stationing in Aquarius, an intensification of that. So that’s the halfway point of that transit of Saturn through Aquarius in your 11th house, where if there’s gonna be a specific event associated with it, and they have planets in the early degrees of fixed signs, it’s especially gonna concentrate around then.

LS: Right.

CB: What’s interesting about that is Mars leaves right around the same time, just a couple of days later. Leaves Aquarius and moves into Pisces, which is their 12th house.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah. So yeah, that is a kind of an interesting combination. It’s something about intensifying that kind of effortful attention on what needs fixing or what needs work in your friends and groups area, but then somehow a piece of the strife or any potential strife that has been happening is kind of like letting up because it’s leaving.

CB: Yeah, like the source of the conflict involving friends or groups perhaps moving and no longer being there as a sort of source of difficulty.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: But instead, with Mars moving into the 12th, the potential ramps up a little bit for conflict with enemies or like people that you don’t get along with.

LS: Yeah.

CB: You also have to be careful with Mars transits through the 12th, about things like self-undoing or creating a situation that undermines yourself.

LS: Yeah, I could easily see—I mean, certainly, again, everything will be individual, depending on the birth chart. But the Mars-Saturn transit of the 11th, you know, bringing up some sort of issue that you either weren’t aware of or that you now know that you need to work on with regard to friends or groups, then you’re kind of stewing on that with Mars going into the 12th. Cuz the 12th can also be kind of your subconscious sometimes.

CB: Okay. Right.

LS: Yeah.

CB: So interestingly, around the same time, we have a double-station of both the benefics, where Jupiter is stationing retrograde in Capricorn, in the 10th house. So an intensification of the positive, especially for people with day charts career energies. But also, this one’s unique. Venus stationing retrograde in Gemini, I believe, which is their 3rd house.

LS: Yes.

CB: So what is the 3rd house? The 3rd house—if we look at the basic significations of the houses—has to do with siblings, short trips, school or education, but also, communication.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely. Yeah, so especially with siblings being there, that being the people part of the 3rd house. Siblings or other assorted relatives sometimes go there. Like cousins.

CB: Extended relatives.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Aunts and uncles.

LS: Yeah, exactly. So any of those relatives. You know, with Venus retrogrades, as a general thing, can sometimes be revisiting a relationship. Oftentimes things are not going straightforwardly with your relationship with someone. And while that’s often talked about the most with regard to romantic relationships, here, since it’s going to station retrograde in your 3rd house of siblings and other assorted relatives, it could involve one or more of those people as well.

CB: Yeah. And a Venus retrograde is often about like revisiting a relationship.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And so, with Venus going retrograde in the 3rd house, it could be about revisiting a relationship and reassessing a relationship that has to do with those specific members of your family. Like especially if you have siblings, if you’ve like grown apart, you could find yourself wanting to reconnect, or somebody coming back into your life. It can also be about redefining or reestablishing the terms and the way that you communicate with somebody.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So maybe there’s something about your communication style that needs revisiting, and maybe there’s some way you could improve or become more effective about the way that you communicate. Having a Venus retrograde around this time, in your 3rd house, would be a good time to, yeah, just go to the drawing table and sort of revisit some of those things to see what you could be doing better and what you could improve in like a constructive way.

LS: Definitely. I agree with all of that. So for some people, it’ll be revisiting the actual connection between you. And for some other people, it might be someone popping back into your life, or you wanting to pop back into someone else’s life that’s governed by that area.

CB: Right. What’s really funny is there’s probably gonna be some stories of some Aries rising people that have like a long-lost sibling or a sibling they didn’t know about when Venus goes retrograde this time of the year, in their 3rd house. And they suddenly find out that they have like a half-sibling that they didn’t know about.

LS: Yeah, I would not be surprised by that either.

CB: Yeah.

LS: Yeah.

CB: All right, so going back to May, those are really the major things going on there. That’s taking us forward, finally, to June. The halfway point through the Venus retrograde cycle occurs at the Sun-Venus conjunction on the 3rd of June.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And is this an eclipse already in June?

LS: Yeah, it’s gonna be that eclipse at 15 Sagittarius.

CB: Okay.

LS: So it’s the first kind of stray Sagittarius eclipse to what is otherwise still kind of the tail-end of the Cancer/Capricorn series.

CB: Okay. So this is a, what is it? A lunar eclipse that’s happening on the 5th of June?

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

CB: Lunar eclipse, 5th of June, and that’s happening in Sagittarius. So that’s gonna be in the 9th house for those with Aries rising.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So some sort of culmination of events with respect to things like your education, your belief system or philosophy, if you have like a religious background or if you have a specific philosophical background. It could be coming to some new insights or some new realizations in terms of that. For others, it could be like an educational program that they’ve been on for a while now starting to pay off or starting to see the endpoint of that insight.

LS: Mm-hmm. That’s true. And all of those, plus, I would say, travel. Long-distance travel is often governed by the 9th house.

CB: Right.

LS: And so, sometimes with eclipses happening in the 9th, it can bring you to opportunities to travel that you don’t usually have otherwise. And while it is a lunar eclipse—so it could bring some sort of culmination—at the same time it’s the very first one in the Gemini/Sagittarius polarity that’s going to be starting at the end of the year.

CB: Right.

LS: So it’s not really—it’s a culmination, but it’s like a mini-culmination. That’s not the endpoint at all.

CB: Yeah, cuz there’s gonna be a lot more eclipses very soon in that area.

LS: Yeah. Yeah, so this is the first one of several. So it kind of awakens perhaps that area of your life. So it might start to bring change in a way that you weren’t expecting with regard to either education or with travel.

CB: Got it, okay. So that’s the first eclipse. There’s a second eclipse that occurs in June. So this is the other active part of the year. And it’s a solar eclipse in Cancer, right?

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: On the 21st of June.

LS: Yeah. And so, that’ll be the last one, actually, in your 4th house of home and family. And so, this has been an ongoing story, bringing beginnings and endings potentially with regard to either things involving your parents or other family members, or your physical dwelling, where you live, your house, your apartment, whatever. So some people, it could be in the process of moving or having moved during these series of eclipses in your 4th house, and this is gonna be the very last one.

CB: Yeah. So for some people that could be moving. For other people it could be stuff going on like in your parent’s life or with respect to your relationship with your parents.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Sometimes 4th house stuff can have to do with like your foundation or your sense of origins, or like who you are and where you’re coming from, which can be funny. There can be like funny, weird manifestations of that. Like learning about your ancestry or your heritage or something.

LS: Yeah, for sure. Or similarly, like sometimes people finding out they had family members sort of further back, that they weren’t aware of or things like that.

CB: Right. All right, and that’s a six-month—like eclipses always have a six-month effect. And while sometimes you can see the change sort of set in pretty quickly and things start to happen, it’s oftentimes something that will evolve in that area of your life over the course of the next six months.

LS: Definitely.

CB: Okay, so back to June. We’ve got the second Mercury retrograde of the year, it looks like, where it’s stationing retrograde on the 18th.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Does that sound right?

LS: That sounds about right.

CB: Let me throw up the exact chart, just to see the actual degrees here. So we’re talking mid-June at this point.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

CB: There it is. Mercury’s stationing retrograde at about 14° of Cancer.

LS: Oh, yeah, that’s right.

CB: It’s not just the eclipse that’s happening in their 4th house. Suddenly there’s a Mercury retrograde in their 4th house.

LS: Yes, that’s true.

CB: So that can be like retooling your home and living situation. That could be retooling or even having like miscommunications surrounding that, or miscommunications with your parents. So it may be important to be careful about misunderstandings in that area. It doesn’t necessarily have to be bad, and it doesn’t mean you should avoid everything. And this is like an issue that’s coming up, I feel like, a lot in the astrological community where people see a negative thing come up, and then they always try to avoid it.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: But sometimes you can’t. You just have to like lean into whatever it is that you have to do during that time. And while it might be a little extra frustrating, or it could take longer than it should at other times, it can still be necessary to do it at that time.

LS: Exactly. Sometimes it’s purposeful. I mean, even all of that 4th house stuff, the one thing we didn’t mention was like repairs or renovations in your home. And with a Mercury retrograde there, as well as an eclipse, that can easily be things like, oh, you realized that this thing needs fixing because mechanical breakdowns can be a retrograde thing.

CB: Totally.

LS: Yeah. So often it is purposeful. It’s not necessarily just like bad for no reason.

CB: Right. So it’s interesting that that Mercury retrograde is happening there by, what, the 17th. And then we see the eclipse like immediately after that, in their 4th house as well.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: That Mercury retrograde itself, as always, lasts for three weeks. And it looks like Mercury stations direct around July 11-July 12, towards the beginning of that sign. So that Mercury retrograde is entirely in their 4th house.

LS: Yes. Yeah, so there’s a lot of extra emphasis on the 4th house matters around this time, around the summer, just because of both of those happening around the same time.

CB: Yeah, that makes sense. Other things that are going on is the Venus retrograde starts to wrap up by the end of June.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And Venus stations direct on the 25th of June. So let’s take a look at that.

LS: Yeah, so that’ll be in the—that’s still in the 3rd house, right? Does it station direct in Gemini? I think it does.

CB: Yeah.

LS: Yeah. So, you know, any of the things that we were talking about a few minutes ago regarding revisiting your relationships, either with siblings or extended family members, or even in a general signification sense, revisiting relationships can start to wrap up, can start to turn a corner as Venus goes direct.

CB: What’s funny is Venus stations direct in Gemini, at 5 Gemini, in their 3rd house, around June 25. There’s so much, then, happening involving retrogrades and an eclipse in the 4th and 3rd house sectors, that that’s so family-oriented. And I wonder if those aren’t separate things, but like related things that are getting teed off and getting activated in terms of their broader family and their extended family in some way around that time.

LS: Yeah, I agree. That’s kind of striking that it is involving both of those.

CB: Right. Like parents and siblings.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right, well, I look forward to hearing some of the stories surrounding that and the different ways that that works out, depending on people’s birth charts. So let’s move in, I think, to July.

LS: July. Well, actually, right at the very end of June, you can see that Mars ingress into Aries.

CB: Okay. Finally gets out of their 12th house, and Mars goes into their 1st house.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So Mars, of course, for Aries rising people is their ruling planet. And Mars is going into the 1st house. And so, it’s beginning a new cycle of moving through all of their 12 houses, with a trip through the 1st. The 1st house, traditionally, represents both the body of the individual and their physical constitution, as well as their mind and their character traits.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So having a Mars transit going through the 1st house, on the one hand, can be a very energizing time, where you feel like you have an extra burst of energy, and you’re initiating a lot of new activities. Sometimes that burst of energy can, though, be too much, and it can give you too much energy, so that you can become like irritable or more short-tempered than normal.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Sometimes it can lead to impulsivity and doing things like too quickly without thinking through them, which is potentially a potential issue for people with Aries rising to begin with, where Mars is the primary planet. So be careful that you don’t jump into something too fast without thinking it through, if there could be major drawbacks. Mars going through the 1st house can sometimes also be health or bodily issues or irritations. So don’t do anything that could lead to like an accident or something like that.

LS: Right. You could be a little more accident-prone at that time than usual. Yeah, I would agree with all of the things you said. That was a good summary of Mars through the 1st for Aries rising. And we should mention of course that, normally, Mars goes through a house, through a sign for six weeks, approximately, but this year is gonna be extra. It’s going to go in at the end of June and not exit until the very beginning of January 2021, a full six months, because of the Mars retrograde happening in the fall.

CB: Right. So this actually a much longer Mars transit through the 1st house than normal, and therefore, much more important.

LS: Yeah.

CB: And we can see that on the circular Planetary Movements Calendar, where Mars is just like moving through the sign, starting out in Scorpio at the beginning of the year, going through Sag, Capricorn, Aquarius, like one sign per month, about, as we’ve seen. And then suddenly, it just slows down and stops in that sign and then spends most of the rest of the year in Aries, going through their 1st house.

LS: Yeah.

CB: So all of those themes that we just mentioned are potential themes, like ongoing issues or ongoing focuses over the course of the next several months, from this point forward.

LS: Yeah. Basically, the whole second half of 2020.

CB: So starting on the 27th of June.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Okay. All right, let’s move forward to July. We’re making terrible time here.

LS: Yeah, I had a sense.

CB: You had a sense that this wasn’t gonna be like a five-minute ordeal?

LS: No, it never is.

CB: Okay. Yeah, but it’s a good baseline. Cuz this is the test to get acquainted with the year, and also, see how long it’s gonna take us to actually realistically go through each rising sign.

LS: Right.

CB: So far—

LS: A while.

CB: Yeah.

LS: Yeah. I mean, and while we don’t wanna take forever, of course, for each sign, this is going to be applicable for an entire year for you all. So, I mean, it’s useful in the sense of anyone listening, I think, for the longevity of it.

CB: Yeah. It looks like we’ve got 160-some-odd people on the livestream. So thanks everyone for joining us for that today. We appreciate it. And thanks to Ryan Young, who I think is the guy who just—he’s our very first person that donated $5 just now—

LS: Oh, thank you, Ryan.

CB: —through the super chat. So thanks a lot.

LS: Yeah.

CB: All right, so we’re halfway through the year. Let’s get back into it.

LS: July.

CB: Yeah.

LS: Yeah.

CB: All right, so here’s the Planetary Movements Calendar, again, for July.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Capricorn on the 5th?

LS: Yeah, so there is a last Capricorn eclipse early in July. And again, this is capping off things for you. Although, it’s interesting. Looking at that calendar, Saturn ingresses back into Capricorn at the very beginning of July, or just a few days before that last Capricorn eclipse. So again, it’s kind of a burst of attention again on your career and professional arena.

CB: Right. And it’s setting the foundation for something that’s gonna grow and develop, especially over the course of the next six months.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: But this is like the final eclipse there.

LS: Yeah.

CB: So there is also a sense of this being the end of a series of things. That they’ve been bouncing back and forth between their public life and their private life for like a year-and-a-half, almost two years now.

LS: Yeah. And it’s kind of a tying in, for Aries rising people, into that longer Saturn and Pluto transit through their 10th house of professional and career efforts. So I don’t think it’s actually anything new. It might be a new wrinkle or something like that, or a new development within the longer, ongoing story, but this is not new attention for you in this arena.

CB: Yeah, it’s a sort of culmination of events and bringing things to completion in that area.

LS: Yeah, in a sense. I mean, Saturn still has, you know, the rest of 2020 to finish its transit. So I’m kind of seeing it within that context.

CB: Sure.

LS: Especially since Saturn just moved back into Capricorn a few days before that eclipse.

CB: I mean, well, that’s really interesting though, if we take it six months from July because then we do get to that final departure of Saturn from Capricorn.

LS: Definitely.

CB: So really this is winding down some of the final, major changes over the next six months from this point in the career, that have been ongoing themes for two or three years now.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, this is kind of the home stretch.

CB: Yeah. Okay. So let’s see, going back to our main calendar for July, that’s the eclipse. We have Mercury eventually stationing direct—which we’ve already talked about—in their 4th house of the home and the living situation.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Normal eclipses. Jupiter sextile Neptune, that’s not important. Let’s move on to August.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Normal inner planet transits at different points.

LS: Mm-hmm. Mid-August is the second Uranus station of the year, out of two.

CB: Okay.

LS: So the first one was January. And then it’s August 15, Uranus stations at almost 11° of Taurus, in your 2nd house of income.

CB: Okay.

LS: So this could be tied in, again. You know, I just see the potential interplay, for a lot of people with Aries rising, with the 2nd house activity, with Uranus there, and the 10th house activity with all of the transits and eclipses there.

CB: Career stuff.

LS: Yeah, all the career stuff in the 2nd and 10th could easily go together.

CB: And look, Saturn’s back in Capricorn.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: I don’t know if we mentioned that. Did we?

LS: Yeah, I did.

CB: Oh, you did? Okay.

LS: Yeah.

CB: So the exact day on that was, what?

LS: It was right at the beginning of July.

CB: There it is. So yeah, around July 1.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So Saturn comes back in for its final pass, for like five months, from then until December.

LS: Exactly.

CB: Plus, the eclipses, plus, Uranus stationing retrograde in their 2nd house of finances.

LS: Yeah. So I see July as another kind of potential hot spot in terms of that career movement. Anything that you’ve been trying to move towards or innovate, or anything like that, because of Saturn moving back into the 10th house of career for its last stretch, at the second half of 2020, plus, the Uranus stationing in the 2nd house, potentially, bringing change or innovation to the way that you make money or your source of income.

CB: Got it. That makes sense. All right, so that’s the biggest thing in August.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Then we get to September, and this is where we’ve got some major action happening again. Because this is actually when Mars—although it’s been in Aries for a while, this is when it actually stations retrograde.

LS: Yeah, it stations retrograde on September 9, then it’s gonna be retrograde until the middle of November.

CB: Okay. So that is a long Mars retrograde period. Interestingly, as we talked about on the yearly forecast with Austin and Kelly this year, it’s compounded by the fact that it’s not just Mars stationing in that sign, but it’s actually stationing at the end of Aries, squaring the Capricorn planets, and especially squaring Saturn.

LS: Yeah.

CB: So there’s some sort of tension that’s created there between—for the Aries rising people—this Mars transit going through their 1st house and this like burst of energy that they have or focus or emphasis on the mind and body part of their chart versus this Saturn transit that’s going through their 10th house, and perhaps demanding so much more of them in terms of their work and career, and creating a sort of tension between those two areas of their life.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, it could be that you were putting a lot of energy towards this, and you start feeling like you’re running out of energy in terms of making it through the entire home stretch. I’m not saying you will run out of energy. It’s more of just like it can feel like it’s taking longer than you expect to do what you need to do.

CB: Yeah, it’s just it’s a marathon, it’s not a sprint. Even though you may have to push yourself further than you have at other times, try not to push yourself beyond that line, where you do like damage to yourself or something. But at the same time, this may be an area where it’s almost necessary, more than at other times, to try to put everything you have into it in order to make it across the finish line over this five-or-six-month period.

LS: Mm-hmm. But just know that it’s gonna take longer. And I think that’s what I’ve been trying to give a heads up to everyone about. Whatever you’re working on at that time or putting energy towards, just don’t be surprised if it’s like a two-step-forward-one-step-back kind of process because that’s what Mars retrogrades often are, even when they’re not square Saturn. And so, that goes doubly, I think, for the fact that it is stationing retrograde square Saturn.

CB: Sure. Okay. So that’s the Mars retrograde station. Jupiter stations direct after retrograding for a while in Capricorn. So again, just emphasizing the 10th house stuff, which is so prominent this year.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Putting like so much energy towards 10th house stuff this year seems to be the main focus, with some 4th house activity coming up with the home and living situation, but so much of this being career-related. And then the Mars retrograde really emphasizing the health and energy aspect of things and just the tension between those three areas of life being a large part of the theme of this year.

LS: Yeah, for sure. I mean, and it is actually really nice that Jupiter is stationing direct around that time. Because even though Mars is stationing retrograde, that’s your ruling planet stationing retrograde in your 1st. So it’s very primary to, you know, potentially, you feeling like you’re running out of energy or something like that. At the same time, Jupiter almost comes up and stations direct in your 10th house of career to kind of like help you out a bit.

CB: Right.

LS: Especially with career matters.

CB: Maybe some of the hard work is paying off or reaches a point where it starts to pay off.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

CB: Okay. So going back to the chart for September, we’ve got the Mars retrograde, Jupiter stationing direct. Saturn stations direct in Capricorn, again, emphasizing the 10th house stuff at the very end of the month, on the 29th.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And that is the final station of Saturn in Capricorn of this entire three-year transit.

LS: It is.

CB: And then after this point, you’re in the home stretch of that transit, which, especially for some of the night people is gonna be great news because some of the heaviness of that transit then is gonna be alleviated by December, and you’re on your way out of that or in the tail-end of that at this point.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, definitely. So you’ll feel a renewed emphasis on career again at the end of the month, at the end of September, in a way that potentially feels like, you know, you’re putting more effort again towards that. It’s the Saturn effort, it’s not the Mars effort. It’s the, “What have I been working on for a while now, and is it paying off?” and that kind of thing. So you’ll feel an emphasis there, but don’t worry if you do because that’s gonna be the last time, like you said, that it’s gonna station there before it leaves the sign.

CB: Right. Okay. So this is taking us into October.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: We’ve got lunations. Aries Full Moon. Beginning of the month, Pluto stationing direct in Capricorn, Mercury stationing retrograde.

LS: Yeah. Let’s see. They’re all water signs this year, yeah?

CB: Yeah. So this is the—

LS: Scorpio?

CB: —third one of the year, which is taking place—the retrograde period is starting on the 13th of October.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And I believe it’s starting in Scorpio, but then it retrogrades back into Libra.

LS: Oh, yeah, that is true. Because when it stations direct it squares Saturn.

CB: Right. So let me throw that up on the actual full transit chart, so we can look at the specific degrees involved.

LS: Mm-hmm. And so, part of October will just be that Mars retrograde continuing. Because that’s kind of the fullest—that’s the only full month that it’ll be retrograde.

CB: Okay.

LS: So we get three weeks of September and then two weeks of November. So that’s the one main thing going on in October as well.

CB: So this is really the center point of it.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

CB: And it looks like we get the literal halfway point of it, probably, at the opposition.

LS: Right. I think that’s about mid-month. October 13 or so.

CB: Yeah, there it is. So at 21° of Aries and Libra, October 13. And that’s right when Mercury is stationing retrograde in Scorpio.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So that’s the 8th house of like shared resources and other people’s money. Can also relate to inheritance and things like that.

LS: Right.

CB: So it sometimes can involve renegotiations or miscommunications involving those subjects, like if you have a partner or a business partner or a relationship partner, something going on with their finances and needing to take a look at that again for some reason, or having some delays in that area.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Cuz it does actually retrograde back into Libra, which means it’s gonna go back into their 7th house.

LS: Yeah. So it does kind of tie those two areas together with that same retrograde. It can also have to do with something with your partner’s, you know, income or source of income going up or down, something about that. Like how do you share putting your money towards things and that sort of thing? I wouldn’t overemphasize it, you know, because there isn’t a lot of activity going on there, but that could be something that comes up during October.

CB: Yeah, and renegotiating things with the partner because it goes back into the 7th house and then stations. Mercury stations direct and ends the retrograde cycle around November 3.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So it could even just be like revisiting or reconnecting with somebody. Reestablishing communication with somebody, where you thought it was finished, but you need to go back to that for some reason.

LS: Yeah, that could be.

CB: It’s kind of nice that at the same time Venus is transiting through their 7th house—

LS: Yeah, that is nice. That’s a nice coinciding.

CB: —from late October through most of the first half of November.

LS: Yeah. Cuz Venus cycles through a house—even though they don’t last terribly long—usually makes things go more smoothly, more harmoniously with whatever area of life it’s transiting. So for you, that’s 7th house of partnership. That can be personal or business partnership or one-on-one interactions, even client work, if you do that.

CB: So maybe it’s smoothing something over in that area.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right, that takes us into November, where, of course, Mercury stations direct on the 3rd, like I said. We get the final Jupiter-Pluto conjunction on the 12th of November, and Mars finally stations direct in Aries on the 13th of November.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So we’re getting the final turning point of Mars transiting through the 1s house and some of the same significations we were talking about earlier.

LS: Right. That’s actually a really interesting pairing, having those like back to back, the Jupiter-Pluto conjunction for the last time in the 10th house of career kind of super-powering, like we said earlier, your urge for, you know, developing your career further, expanding your career in whatever way is applicable for you at that time. And then Mars going direct in your 1st house of self is kind of like bringing your energy back to do whatever you need to put energy towards.

CB: Right. Cuz I guess sometimes retrogrades—especially in the 1st house—can be like draining or can be like an exhausting type of energy. But then when Mars finally stations direct, it’s returning back to form and like sort of getting back.

LS: Mm-hmm. Exactly. So I think that’ll be really helpful for Aries rising people to have those back to back in November.

CB: Right. Then we start to enter into eclipse season again, it looks like, by the end of the month.

LS: Yeah. So they’ve moved into Sagittarius and Gemini fully by the end of the year here. So we’ve got a—

CB: So it’s an eclipse on—yeah, so there’s one in Gemini on the 30th of November and then one in Sagittarius on the 14th of December sort of activating that 3rd/9th-house axis.

LS: Yeah, and this is gonna be going on through the following year, since this is ending 2020. But it basically brings change, beginnings and endings with regard to either education or travel, two topics that cross both the 3rd and 9th house topics. The 9th house being more long-term travel or further-distance travel, the 3rd being short-distance travel. Anything having to do with siblings and other assorted relatives, like we mentioned earlier, with the 3rd house. And 9th house is just expanding your horizons in whatever way that is meaningful to you at that time. So that can be higher education. It can be exploring religion, philosophy. Even astrology goes there traditionally. So, you know, ways of making higher meaning, that you’re not usually focused on.

CB: Right. Okay. And yeah, like you said, this is gonna be initiating something that’s gonna be playing out over a couple-year period in those houses.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: It can also sometimes have to do with like what you believe or what you think versus how you communicate it.

LS: Definitely.

CB: What you believe being like a 9th house thing and how you communicate it being a 3rd house thing.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Also education and just like starting new forms of study.

LS: Yeah.

CB: That’s like a major topic.

LS: Definitely. Which can be like a full course, it can just be like a quick thing, either way.

CB: Okay. So that’s really centered especially around those two eclipses, the first one on the 30th of November and the second one, again, on the 14th of December.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Then we finally get to the end of the year and the sort of culmination of some major transits, basically.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So the end of some major transits and the beginning of some new, outer planet transits, focusing especially on Saturn and Jupiter.

LS: Mm-hmm. So Jupiter and Saturn leave your 10th house of career, finally, in late December, and they both move in pretty short order—within a few days of each other, in the second half of December—into your 11th house of friends and groups. So that’s gonna be taking a major area of emphasis away from your career. You’re kinda gonna get a letup there. Pluto will still finish transiting there for several more years, but all of the rest of the activity will really let up. And now, Saturn—where you’re gonna be putting your efforts towards—moves back fully, at the end of December 2020, to your friends and groups. And then Jupiter will join it, which is really nice. Because I think, you know, we’ve talked about before, in other arenas, this is not only gonna be a lighter energy—even though it’s still Saturn—because it’s gonna be an air sign versus an earth sign. So I think there’ll be more of a feeling of movement in Aquarius versus Capricorn. Capricorn’s kind of the long plod, and Aquarius is more electric and more like connecting with other people and social and things like that.

CB: Yeah. And we got a preview of this earlier in the year when Saturn first dipped into Aquarius, between March and like June.

LS: Yeah.

CB: But that was more sort of raising some serious issues surrounding 11th house matters, like friends and groups and alliances and what role those play in your life. Saturn’s gonna come. So then it left for a few months, in the second half of the year, and went back into Capricorn. And now, it’s gonna come back for like at least a two-year transit through Aquarius.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: But at least for the first year, with Jupiter moving at the exact same time basically, and having this conjunction with Saturn in Aquarius, it’s being offset by a more optimistic, sort of expansive energy in that area, which I think is gonna be really useful for truly getting started with some of the major restructuring in that area of people’s lives.

LS: Absolutely. Yeah, it’s a really nice boon to have Jupiter join for a year. And it’s gonna feel very different than the Mars-Saturn in the spring. Because the Mars-Saturn moving into Aquarius—in your friends and groups area, in the spring—is more like, “Here’s a problem,” or “Here’s something you need to fix,” or “Here’s an issue you need to work on,” whether that’s how you interact with friends and groups or something involving your friends. But when it comes back, it’s gonna be with Jupiter instead of Mars, which is not only more expansive, but usually brings more beneficial things to you during that time.

CB: Right.

LS: More opportunities.

CB: Yeah. So, I mean, something as simple as like making new friends over the course of that year, as Saturn goes through your—or as Jupiter goes through your 11th house can be a really straightforward manifestation of that.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely. Expanding your social circle, being more open to meeting new people, meeting people that are helpful to you in some way, things like that.

CB: Yeah, that’s a good one, being helped by a friend in a way that’s unique or notable.

LS: Mm-hmm. More than the other 11 years, yeah.

CB: Definitely. All right, and that kind of brings us to the end of the year. Is there anything else we need to mention here, at the end of December?

LS: I don’t think so. I think that was really the major thing happening in December.

CB: Was that Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, which is rare and only happens once every 20 years.

LS: 20 years, yeah.

CB: Yeah. All right, cool. Well, I think then we did it for this horoscope, for this year ahead forecast, for Aries and Aries rising.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So it only took us like an hour. So I think at this rate, since this is only the first one, that we’ll be through this in no time.

LS: Yeah. I’m definitely joining for the rest of the signs.

CB: You’ll be joining me for all the rest of the signs?

LS: Absolutely.

CB: All right. Well, I may be back. I’ll be back, definitely. Leisa may have to be talked into it. Thank you, everybody who joined us in the livestream. There were a few people that donated, which I appreciated, including Dia Nunez, who donated. So thank you, we appreciate you. And thanks everyone who joined us in the chats. So I’m gonna be back, off and on, doing this—at least over the course of the next day or two—whenever I can. And I’m gonna move to Taurus rising next and then just keep moving through the signs so that I don’t forget any and like leave a sign out and get a lot of hate mail.

LS: That would be sad.

CB: But where can people find out more information about you?

LS: I’m at LeisaSchaim.com. And I do natal consultations, electional work, and some rectification.

CB: Yeah. And speaking of electional, you and I just released our 2020 Year Ahead Electional Astrology Report—

LS: We did.

CB: —where we picked out one auspicious electional chart, or one, basically, like, lucky day for starting new ventures and undertakings in each of the next 12 months.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah. And it’s pretty reasonably priced. It’s just $25. The astrology of the coming year is a little bit challenging for electional work, but we did all the hard work for you and kind of poured over the ephemeris for every month of the next year and picked out the best date and time range for each month to start something that you want to go better than usual, and kind of give you a little bit of a heads up as to when that is, if you wanna plan something further out in the year.

CB: Right. So you can find that report on my website, which is ChrisBrennanAstrologer.com. At ChrisBrennanAstrologer.com/2020—

LS: 2020 elections?

CB: Elections, I believe.

LS: Yeah. Should I double-check that? But yeah, I think that’s it.

CB: It’s linked. If you don’t find it there, you’ll find it if you go to my store on ChrisBrennanAstrologer.com.

LS: Sounds good.

CB: All right. The artwork for this episode came from our posters this year, which I just released a few weeks ago. So this is the 2020 Astrology Calendar Poster Package, which includes the Planetary Alignments Calendar, the Planetary Movements Calendar, as well as a bonus poster, which show the significations of the houses. So you can literally track all of these transits that we were talking about over the course of the year at a glance and know exactly what days certain ones are starting and which days certain ones are stopping.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So that’s a great thing. You can find out more information about that on The Astrology Podcast website, at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2020Posters. And other than that, thanks to our patrons. We have a bunch of patrons and supporters who support this astrology podcast through Patreon.com/AstrologyPodcast. Special shoutout to patrons Christine Stone, Nate Craddock, and Tanner Robinson, as well as the Astro Gold Astrology App, at astrogold.io, the Portland School of Astrology, at PortlandAstrology.org, the Honeycomb Collective Personal Astrological Almanac, at Honeycomb.co. And there’s two major astrology conferences happening this year. The first one, the International Society for Astrological Research is hosting a conference in Denver, Colorado, September of 2020. You can find out more information at ISAR2020.org. And the Northwest Astrological Conference in Seattle, May 25—or 21-25, 2020, which you can find out more information about at NORWAC.net. If you like the horoscopes and wanna support and encourage me to do more in the future, then sign up to become a patron at Patreon.com/AstrologyPodcast. All right, thanks for joining me.

LS: You’re welcome.

CB: Thanks everyone for watching this livestream, and good luck in 2020. And we’ll see you again at some point in the future for another horoscope forecast.

LS: Yeah, thanks for listening.

CB: All right.

TAURUS AND TAURUS RISING

CB: Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is your horoscope for Taurus and Taurus rising for the entire year of 2020. Joining me today is astrologer Cam White. Hey, Cam.

CAM WHITE: How’s it going, Chris?

CB: And you’re from WhiteLightAstrology.com?

CW: Yes, White Light Astrology. If you guys don’t know me already, I have a YouTube channel as well, so make sure to check me out. But thanks for having me here.

CB: Yeah, I’m excited to do this. So Leisa and I just got done doing the livestream for Aries and Aries rising. It went well. It took a little bit of time to go through the entire year, but I think we’ve got a system down. So now we’re gonna see if we can do this in like 30-to-40 minutes, to give people an overview of the astrology of the next 12 months.

CW: Yeah. Let’s go. Let’s do it.

CB: Let’s jump right into it. All right, so, first off, I wanna display from our Planetary Movements Poster this year, which shows—in this image at least—Taurus rising, and it shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the year and where they will end up by the very end of the year. So some of the outer planets move very slow and will stay in certain signs, and some of the inner planets move very quickly. Like Mercury, which goes all the way around the signs in a 12-month period. We’re also gonna be looking at the planetary alignments, which shows the ingresses and certain dates, when certain planets move into different signs, when the lunations and when the retrograde stations are as well. So all of this is from the posters we did this year. You actually helped me put together and roll together all of the posters.

CW: Yeah. If you have a poster, just know I rolled all of them by hand.

CB: Right.

CW: There’s love in that.

CB: Love, and probably like parts of your DNA.

CW: Yeah, so it’s my DNA. If you wanna put a crime on me or something like that, you have the opportunity.

CB: Or if anybody wants to clone you in the future, like in a hundred years, like they’ll find your DNA on one of these posters.

CW: Yes.

CB: Which are available at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/—

CW: In fine bookstores everywhere.

CB: —/2020Posters. All right, let’s jump right into it. Let’s jump into the astrology of January.

CW: Let’s do it.

CB: So the year starts off—has already started off. We’re five days into it at this point. So it starts off with a bit of a bang, with the big looming thing that’s happening right now, the upcoming Cancer eclipse. We’re sandwiched in between eclipses right now. We had one in Capricorn and one lunar eclipse coming up on the 10th of January in Cancer. And then we have the Saturn-Pluto conjunction that’s coming up on the 12th in Capricorn, right?

CW: Yeah. Those are—that is easily like the highlight of January, and for the most part, the first quarter of 2020.

CB: Okay.

CW: I’ve been trying to say, starting off January 1, with it being in between eclipses, is kind of a weird way to start the year off. I feel like this is more of the start of the year once we’ve finished off these eclipses. And it’s kind of hard to say that Saturn-Pluto isn’t a new beginning in some form of the definition.

CB: Right. So let’s take a look at what that looks like if you have your rising sign in Taurus. So for all of these horoscopes—I should state right from the start—you can read these from the perspective of if your Sun sign is Taurus, which is your normal zodiac sign, especially if you have a day chart, or if your Moon is in Taurus, especially if you have a night chart. But we’re gonna especially be focusing on those that have their ascendant in Taurus, or otherwise, known as the rising sign.

CW: Yeah.

CB: So if you don’t know your rising sign yet, you need to get a copy of your birth chart. You can get that from Astro.com. Just go there, enter your birth data—you need your exact date, time, and place of birth—and then they’ll tell you what your rising sign is. So if you have Taurus rising, then this horoscope or this year ahead forecast is especially for you. All right, so here’s the actual chart. And this is set for today, for January 5. And we see that if a person has Taurus rising, then all of that Capricorn stuff that’s going on right now—all of those transits of both inner planets and some outer planets through Capricorn—is going through their 9th house.

CW: Yeah. And not even to mention, we also have Jupiter now in Capricorn. That did happen last year, but that is something that we’re gonna be dealing with strictly all of 2020. But with having all of these planets up in the 9th house, it kind of screams a lot of 9th house topics are probably coming up a lot for Taurus, in their lives, whether that’s long-distance travel, higher education in some way, spiritual matters of some sort.

CB: Yeah, like a person’s beliefs, whether like religious or philosophical. But also, educational topics, like especially college and other forms of higher education are major 9th house topics. So a lot of this is stuff that’s been going on in their life for at least a couple of years now. Because two years ago, at the end of 2017, was when Saturn first ingressed into Capricorn and into that sector of their chart, right?

CW: Yeah. And I feel like—I mean, this also comes back all the way. Cuz that’s what’s weird about this year. A lot of the things actually come back from 2008, when Pluto went into Capricorn. I’m not saying that’s like the biggest thing. However, having Pluto transiting that house for so long, and then having Saturn come up to it, now having Jupiter come up to it—it kind of puts all of the focus and all of the pressure all at one point. And I feel like since, yeah, not only the end of 2017—you can go back to 2008—there’s been a lot of changes going on in that 9th house area. And bringing it more into a smaller scope of 2017, going into having Saturn up there, I feel like that can look a lot of different ways, depending on, of course, if you’re a day or a night chart. But I do feel like Saturn being in that 9th house area has just brought a lot of the 9th house topics in a more serious tone. Like it’s not just about what do you believe, but, you know, what is the system of what you believe. 9th house being super-religious or very spiritual, you’ve been probably taking those matters very seriously, whether that’s been in a positive light or in a negative light. And that kind of depends on Saturn, but, you know.

CB: Yeah. I mean, the people with day charts probably have been experiencing that Saturn transit over the past couple of years as a bit more constructive, where sometimes there’s setbacks or obstacles that come up in this area of your life. It’s like the cliché ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ type thing, and you’re able to overcome those and like become better as a person, despite going through some hard times. Whereas people with night charts might experience a little bit more struggle in that area, where sometimes a 9th house transit can be like a question of belief, or it can be running into some hardships or having some rejections even when it comes to things like education or exposure to new ideas and philosophies.

CW: Yeah. And having Saturn going through that, that’s very constricting. It’s drying up the fertility in that land in the 9th house.

CB: Right.

CW: And one thing to that, that I really like to use for Saturn, is the word ‘responsibility’.

CB: Yeah.

CW: Cuz responsibility’s bad. No one wants to be responsible for anything. We don’t like responsibilities.

CB: Right.

CW: But taking them on—

CB: Unless you’re like a Capricorn.

CW: Yeah. Unless you’re like a Capricorn. But taking those things on, you know, while it is hard—we don’t usually like it—end up helping us, you know, saturate the better qualities of ourselves. And I feel like that’s what Saturn’s kind of doing, no matter what. Whether, you know, night or day chart difference of having it more constructive or being a little bit more, you know, constricted and limiting—there’s a sense of responsibility and almost obligation to address situations in this 9th house.

CB: Yeah. And definitely like putting in the hard work. I’ve noticed a lot of people with Taurus rising who are focused on educational pursuits right now, like finishing their degree, or being in it for the long haul in terms of getting their degree during this time. Especially some Saturn return people that are maybe doing it a little late, but are finally doing what they need to do in order to bring that to completion.

CW: Yeah. And one thing, too, that I’ve also kind of seen with this just happening in the 9th house, a lot of people have been almost questioning what they’re accomplishing or wanting to build right here, and I can see why. I mean, you’ve had the South Node right here. You’ve had Jupiter right here. There’s all of this influx of good, but all of this, you know, South Node releasing of certain things. So I feel like while certain Taurus risings have probably had a lot of accomplishments here, have, you know, done a lot in this area, there’s also still a lingering feeling of questioning, “Is this where I wanna go? Is this what I wanna do? Is this what I wanna learn?” And that’s something that I find really interesting about the 9th house is that, you know, it’s not super-in-your-face. It’s very up for interpretation in a sense.

CB: Yeah. And it can also be like preparatory. Cuz all of the planets that are going through the 9th house are going through there in preparation for going up to the 10th house and the highest part of the chart, which we tend to associate with career and the life direction. And so, Saturn’s been going through the 9th house for two years and going through this preparatory phase for eventually coming out and hitting a real stride in terms of one’s career. So that’s something that’s gonna come up, especially later this year, when Saturn goes into Aquarius and goes into the 10th house for those with Taurus rising. And we’ll get to that in a little bit. But just suffice it to say that many of you may have been going through this period for a couple of years now, and you’re in the last third of it, where you’re having this 9th house transit of Saturn. And while that’s been very heavy for the past couple of years, one of the positive things about this year is that since Jupiter is transiting through Capricorn finally, for this 12-month period, all the way through December, there’s gonna be a little bit of a lightening up of that, and things might be more easy to accomplish or have a better sense of expansion surrounding those topics, instead of just the contraction or the hard work that you’ve been putting in for the past two years.

CW: Yeah. A lot of people have been kind of giving flack for Jupiter being in Capricorn, like it’s gonna be awful. But it’s still the greater benefic doing its job. It’s just not gonna look the way that most people, you know, think. And I think with Jupiter in Capricorn that’s bringing more awareness, expanding, bringing more good luck and fortune in the areas in which we create systems, in which we, you know, create foundations, structures. And as that’s going on in your 9th house, if you remain, you know, having that discipline, having that structure, having that, you know, Saturn quality and Saturn theme really worked on there, there’s gonna be some good luck going on there. There’s gonna be some type of expansion or some type of growth that Jupiter’s basically known for. And I just think it’s about not necessarily looking for that everywhere you go, but just knowing that that’s gonna happen and just kind of putting it on the back burner until it comes up eventually.

CB: Yeah. So all of that being said, when we actually look at January, we had an eclipse in December, which was in their 9th house, in Capricorn. That was a solar eclipse. So that was setting a foundation for something that’s gonna grow and develop over the course of the next six months, between December and like June. But here, right at the beginning of January, on the 10th, we have this lunar eclipse in Cancer, which is actually taking place in their 3rd house. And so, the 3rd house and the dynamic there—because these eclipses have been bouncing back and forth between their 3rd and 9th houses for a good year, year-and-a-half now—is often the difference between what you know in the 9th house, or what you believe or think, versus how you communicate it in the 3rd house, and how you sort of speak what you think you know and how you convey it to other people.

CW: Yeah. And what you do with it, essentially. And I think having the eclipses go back and forth, while there’s been so much pressure and obligation and duty thrown on the 9th house of “Oh, you’ve gotta believe this,” or “You’ve gotta learn this,” or “You’ve gotta accomplish x, y, and z,” that 3rd house being brought up is kind of like, well, you know, “Am I expressing this the right way? Am I going to be able to utilize this in the ways that I want to?” Yeah, like, “Am I understanding it in the correct way?” Cuz the 3rd house is also like learning and teaching, in that sense of not so much higher education, like the 9th house, but more elementary stuff. And I really like to use that in the sense of like, are you understanding the concepts correctly? Are you utilizing it and structuring it in a way that is actually not only like believable but usable and workable and learnable?

CB: Right. And since this is a lunar eclipse, we know of course that that means there was a solar eclipse six months earlier in the same sign. So there was probably something new that they initiated or started working on at that time, which is then coming to completion, or coming to a sort of culmination in terms of their communication style or other potential 3rd house topics, which include things like your siblings, especially if you have siblings, or other extended relatives. Sometimes it can also relate to like mobility issues, like how you travel or get around your city, which sounds like a sort of weird side topic but actually can be very important for some people, like having changes when it comes to your 3rd house.

CW: Yeah. Well, what’s interesting about this axis is that it’s the 3rd and the 9th house, long-distance travel and short-distance travel. Like, you know, let’s say you move across the country, or to a different country and you can’t bring your car. Well, you’ve gone somewhere really far now. You have to figure out a new means of transportation. Are you gonna get a bike? Are you just gonna walk everywhere? Are you taking public transportation?

CB: Right.

CW: It’s something that we can kind of like go, “Oh, that’s too mundane to put into astrology,” but it is really important stuff.

CB: Yeah. Or maybe it’s like they started saving six months ago for a car and they finally have enough, and they’re ready at this point to buy the car would be a typical manifestation of the solar eclipse six months ago in the 3rd house and then the lunar eclipse happening in January. So the lunar eclipse, while you might start to see some events take place with respect to that in January, lunar eclipses have a six-month timeframe. So this is gonna be sort of coming to culmination in your life, in this area, over the course of the next six months rather than something that happens completely overnight, but it’s still worth noting. There’s a lot of other stuff going on in January, though. We have Uranus stationing direct in early Taurus. And this, of course, is the rising sign when we’re talking about those that have Taurus rising. So we’re still in the very early stages. We’re only, what, like a year into this transit of like Uranus through the 1st house for those with Taurus rising, using whole sign houses.

CW: Yeah. Well, I mean, it dipped in 2018, kind of. So they kind of got a taste, but last year was really the full year. But now, it’s going past 10° of Taurus. So like Taurus risings and any other big fixed-sign placements are really gonna start feeling the Uranus influence now.

CB: Right.

CW: And so, if you’re a Taurus rising, there’s really no hiding from Uranus at this point.

CB: Yeah. So we’re getting through the first third of the sign during the course of this year. And it’s gonna station there at, like you said, 10° Taurus, I think, later in the summer.

CW: I think it stations retrograde at 12 or 13.

CB: Is it that far?

CW: I think so. Let me double-check, actually.

CB: Okay. So while you’re doing that, other stuff that’s happening in January. We’ve got the Saturn-Pluto conjunction on the 12th. I’m not as concerned about that, unless that’s hitting some specific parts of your chart. I do know there’s some people where I had somebody who sent me a chart of like their grandfather, and he had his Saturn exactly at 21 Capricorn. So he was going through some health issues right now, his natal Saturn. So that natal Saturn-Pluto conjunction was happening on his natal Saturn, and he had Pluto at like 20-21 Cancer.

CW: Oh, wow.

CB: So it’s like the opposite of that. So obviously, for somebody like that, if you have close degrees, that’s gonna be more important. But otherwise, if it’s not hitting close degrees, the exact conjunction itself might not be super important for you personally, even though, in the world in general, obviously, we’ve got some major Saturn-Pluto stuff going on right now.

CW: Yeah, definitely. And Uranus only hits 10° this year, so you’re right. But it does get there.

CB: Sure. Yeah, so Uranus going through the 1st house can be a lot of unexpected and rapid changes. The 1st house has to do with both your body and like physical vitality, but also, your mind and your character. So those are always the two primary target areas anytime we have a planet going through the 1st house. And what Uranus often does is it symbolizes radical changes in that area of your life. So for some people this could be like radical changes over the course of the next decade with respect to your appearance. It could be with respect to your character or how you present yourself to people, how you come off to people. For others, it may have specific, other bodily ramifications in terms of things with their physical body and health. But the major keywords are like major changes and sort of like a revolution when it comes to—

CW: Upheavals.

CB: Upheavals, sure. That’s a good one.

CW: Well, the one thing I wanted to say, too, is with Taurus being a fixed sign, and usually so stable and having a foundation, Uranus there might be much more of a challenge. And one thing I really like to use for the ascendant is like your reactions and your responses. Cuz it’s kind of like your perspective in essence. And as Uranus goes over there, you’re gonna have that change of perspective, and you’re gonna have that change of how you view yourself, and, you know, all of those Uranus things. But what I think is gonna be important is how do you find that stabilization with your reactions and responses, when you’re dealing with Uranus in your face? Cuz Taurus, you know, they want things cool, calm, collected, and easy going, and Uranus isn’t going to give that to them. So it’s kind of like how do you remain that cool, calm, you know, Taurus rising, but also, you know, going with the flow of Uranus? Like still being electric. Being able to go with the change but not, you know, reacting drastically to the change, if that makes sense. Or resisting the change.

CB: Yeah. I mean, what I’ve seen so far is two of the Taurus rising people I know are just taking on the energy of Uranus itself and are sort of embodying it. Both of them suddenly like sold their house and like moved to a different part of the country in order to seek liberation and in order to sort of seek out their dreams and do what felt good to them, even though for some of the people around them, it seemed somewhat destabilizing.

CW: Mm-hmm

CB: Yeah, which is cool for them. But sometimes that can be a part of your life where you make changes dramatically or radically, or sometimes changes happen to you dramatically or radically and it can kind of come out of nowhere. And sometimes that energy feels good in the moment. But eventually, at some point in the future, you may end up settling down in a different situation than you started with.

CW: Yeah. Again, this is Uranus through Taurus. It’s like that fixed earth sign. And that’s why I like that word ‘upheaval’ of things going on, where there’s usually an embedded foundation that kind of gets brought up. And then once you loosen that dirt, it’s kind of like discing a field. Like if you know anything about tractors or farmers, they disc fields. So they have like a fresh ground, and that ground is a lot more loose, and it’s a lot easier to plant seeds on that ground. And I think that’s a really good analogy for the Taurus rising. You know, there’s some upheaval there, but, you know, don’t be super erratic with it. You wanna make sure that you can plant the seeds. Don’t go super deep to where they won’t grow roots. But, you know, change up what you need to, so you can get a new harvest. So you can grow like a fresh yield of food.

CB: Yeah. So there’s two times this year where that’s gonna be really important, where when Uranus stations either retrograde or direct, we have an intensification of those energies. And one of those times is gonna be right here, around January 10, right around that eclipse.

CW: Yeah. And this is more important for Taurus rising than, honestly, anybody.

CB: Yeah. And I wanted to mention, also, yeah, for any of our 12 rising signs because that’s their rising sign. And it’s happening in such close proximity to that eclipse, I wanted to mention that having an eclipse in the 3rd can also indicate a culmination of events with respect to the people that are represented by the 3rd house. We talked a lot about communication, which is a good general one. But sometimes it can very specifically be siblings, like in some sort of series of events that’s been building up over the past, especially, six months with respect to siblings or other extended relatives. Cuz there’s other family members that fit into the 3rd house as well.

CW: Isn’t it aunts and uncles?

CB: Yeah, like aunts and uncles. There’s a little question about whether grandparents are there because it’s like the house that’s before the 4th house, so it like precedes the 4th house in some sense. But yeah, definitely like extended relatives can sometimes come up in the 3rd house. And I’ve seen that happen and be relevant in at least one Taurus rising I know, where they’ve been caring for like a sick niece. And they moved across the country to take care of their niece.

CW: Oh, wow.

CB: And they’re sort of expecting a culmination for things to go one way or another in terms of either getting better or getting worse, probably around the time of that eclipse, which makes a lot of sense.

CW: God. All right.

CB: Yeah. So for some, that’s like a serious thing, so I just wanted to mention that.

CW: But this is also serious energy that we’re talking about for the first month of January. It’s not, you know, oh, we’re just going through a new year. It’s like, hey, we’re going into the first year of the rest of our lives.

CB: Yeah. I mean, everything is in Capricorn. So there’s definitely serious energies going on right now.

CW: So let’s get to, what, the next few months.

CB: Yeah. All right. So that was January. So one month down, two months to go. We’re only 20 minutes into this. Making good time. So moving on to February. February, Mars goes into Capricorn. So it had been transiting through Sagittarius very briefly, in their 8th house of shared resources, which can sometimes either put greater energy towards shared resource matters, or other times create conflicts in that area of the life. Now Mars moves into Capricorn and joins the rest of the planets for that whole party.

CW: Yeah. And this is basically the highlight of February.

CB: Is Mars going through Capricorn?

CW: Mars going through. That’s gonna really pull the attention, I think, from everything else. Like why not add another planet to mix? Mars is just going to amplify and really heat up that 9th house area. Regardless of your night or day chart, you’re gonna find a lot more energy being focused on this area. You’re gonna find yourself, you know, really having to apply yourself a lot in this area. Mars is exalted here. So this is where Mars likes to be a lot of the time. It’s going to be conjoining the South Node, Jupiter, Pluto, Saturn. There’s a lot of intensification around Mars’ transit here. Mars is kind of getting slapped by a lot of different things through this area. And so, I think that Mars transiting Capricorn is not only gonna be the highlight of February, but I think this is gonna be a huge part of 2020 because of the Mars retrograde that we’ll be having later on.

CB: In Aries, right?

CW: Yeah, in Aries, which will square all of this. But I think what’s really gonna be starting here, in this time, during this transit, is really gonna be coming alive more in the summer. As Mars goes through there, you’re wanting to take action and take charge of 9th house topics. You know, maybe that is finishing your education. Maybe that is publishing a book. The 9th house is also publishing. Or whether you’re wanting to pursue, you know, more religious or spiritual studies or anything like that, whatever it is, Mars is just going to really amplify this and kind of make this an experience to go down. Cuz it’s not just Mars in Capricorn through your 9th house. It’s Mars conjoining the South Node, conjoining Jupiter, conjoining Pluto, conjoining Saturn.

CB: Right.

CW: There’s a big process going on from February to, I believe, March. Yeah, end of March into April is when Mars actually moves out of Capricorn. But during that whole time, it’s just what energies and what focus has been placed on that 9th house area for quite some time, Mars is gonna come here and really start to charge and amp that up. And that’s both gonna be good and negative. I mean, if you have a day chart, Mars can definitely bring fights, arguments, you know. I don’t wanna say indecision, but more of like blind ignorance in a sense.

CB: Impulsiveness.

CW: Impulsiveness. Like, yeah, I’m just gonna do this regardless of what anyone says or what, you know, the situation says.

CB: Yeah. I mean, for people, especially with day charts, it looks like Mars ends that transit on the 30th of March. So we’re talking about a good, what, month, month-and-a-half here.

CW: Like six weeks, exactly.

CB: So that can bring sometimes conflict or separation, in Mars’ transits, to whatever house it goes through. So it could be, going through the 9th house, something having to do with either education or your belief system, and sometimes getting like into arguments or conflicts with people surrounding that. That could be ideologically-based or could have to do with a conflict over what you believe versus what somebody else believes. In other instances, Mars can indicate a period of separation and like needing to have separation with somebody, that could be based over something like that, that’s ideological. More concretely, it could be your education and like getting into some issue at school, where you have to separate yourself from something. Or in other instances, the 9th house can concretely indicate like foreign travel or foreign things, like foreign people. So sometimes something as simple as like getting into a conflict with somebody that’s from a different place than you can be a really literal and simple manifestation of a transit like that.

CW: Oh, definitely. I just think this one will be a little bit more peculiar just because of all of the planets that are gonna be in there. I think it’s gonna be a little bit less stereotypical, 9th house Mars transit stuff and a little bit more like serious and bigger 9th house transit-type stuff.

CB: Sure.

CW: But at the end of the day, it doesn’t sound—I mean, sure, you have like the three most malefic planets all next to each other for a little while. That doesn’t sound super bad, though. Everything’s at least focused on one point. Saturn and Pluto’s a very slow transit. Mars is gonna be picking up some speed here and gonna be kind of picking up the energy. So if there’s something that’s been slow-going, this is when things start to kind of speed up in a sense.

CB: Yeah. It definitely increases the pace and makes things more rapid—that were otherwise moving slow in that area of the life—and can create more of a sense of urgency to get things done. What’s also interesting about this is—almost simultaneously in February as the Mars ingress—we have Mercury stationing retrograde on the 16th of February as well. And that’s stationing retrograde in Pisces conjunct Neptune.

CW: Yeah. In my opinion, this one is not gonna be nearly as bad as the one we had last year. The one that we had last year, that was square Jupiter exactly and then stationed direct on top of Neptune. That one was pretty blurry. That was when the Mueller Report came out and no one knew what it said. And it didn’t matter what it said, cuz it didn’t mean anything. That’s kind of like Mercury stationing direct on Neptune. But with Mercury not exactly conjoining Neptune, it’ll still be a few degrees away.

CB: Yeah. I mean, it’s like 3, sorry, 5°.

CW: Yeah, about 5°.

CB: So Mercury stations at 12 Pisces.

CW: So with Mercury not on top of Neptune, like it was last time, it’s not gonna be as bad as last year. Last year, the Mercury retrograde in Pisces was very confusing, very out there. This one is still a Mercury retrograde in Pisces. It’s Mercury’s detriment sign, still conjoined Neptune. So there’s that, you know, cloudy illusion there. But with this happening in the 11th house of friends, this just seems more of like a time of, again, you know, miscommunication between friends or a misunderstanding. Something not being said or something like deliberately not being said. Something not being communicated. Just the communication isn’t clear during this time, and I think it’s really going to become more prevalent through the avenue of friends. And with Mercury being in Pisces, and, you know, Pisces’ ruler, Jupiter, being in Capricorn, these might be associates and people or like colleagues in that 9th house topic. So like if you are in school, if you are getting like a higher education, these might be people that you associate with having that miscommunication problem.

CB: Yeah. I would just exercise greater caution not to have miscommunications with friends because during that three-week Mercury retrograde period—especially around the time of the station in February—the likelihood of that is much greater. There can also sometimes be issues with a friend, maybe not being fully open or fully honest with you, but keeping something back in a way that could cause an issue during the course of that three-week retrograde period. Eventually, that gets cleared up though, and the halfway point in the retrograde is when the Sun conjoins Mercury on February 25. And then Mercury finally stations direct. It actually retrogrades back into Aquarius, into their 10th house of career, and then stations direct on the 9th of March. So it may tie together those two topics of like friends and career. But there may be something in the career sphere that you have to go back and revisit, that you thought was finished, but might come back and you have to deal with a second time again when Mercury returns back to the 10th house.

CW: Yeah. And what I do think is interesting about Mercury coming back to the 10th house and to Aquarius is shortly after, you’re gonna be having Mars and Saturn come into the 10th house, too. So that Mercury retrograde can almost be like a—

CB: Like a precursor.

CW: Yeah, like a precursor to what that Mars and Saturn is really going to be addressing, when that ingress happens. Cuz that’s really the big thing of February. It’s like Mars goes into Capricorn, Mercury retrograde, and then March. Saturn goes into Aquarius—big, big deal, especially for Taurus risings. Any fixed sign rising.

CB: Right.

CW: And having Mars go in, what is that? Like a little over a week later?

CB: Yeah, like a week later.

CW: Yeah, I think that’s gonna really shift the game a little bit.

CB: So this is going into their 10th house of career.

CW: Yes. So Saturn entering 10th house of career, Saturn still being in its home sign of Aquarius. The analogy I’ve been trying to use for this is like Saturn in Capricorn is very much like an office room. Like an office building with no windows. There’s no AC. There’s no heat. The computers are very old. Like Saturn in Aquarius is like an office that has natural lighting and has plants and that’s a little bit more breathable to work in. It’s not as stuffy as Capricorn is. But Aquarius is a lot more breathable. It’s not so much, you know, mundane and boring. You know, it’s equally as serious, but it’s more on ideas and concepts and how to connect to those a little bit more.

CB: Sure. So this begins. They’ve been dealing with a three-year Saturn transit. Or it’s been two-years-and-a-few-months at this point of Saturn going through Capricorn and through their 9th house, but that whole preparatory period is finally over. And this ingress of Saturn into Aquarius, in March, begins a three-year Saturn transit through the 10th house of career and through restructuring of one’s career and reputation, as it slowly moves through that sign. But it kind of gets off with a bang because it conjoins Mars at the same time. So I feel like for both people born by day, as well as people born by night, that it kind of opens with like some sort of challenge in the career sphere, that has to met and dealt with, and hopefully, overcome, unless it’s something where it just puts up a blockage, that you can’t proceed further, and have to choose a different route to go down.

CW: Yeah. And this is Aquarius. This is kind of like, you know, connecting the dots, finding a different solution. You know, I’m not the type of person to put ‘Uranus as Aquarius’. So it’s creative and intuitive, but Aquarius is definitely a creative-type sign. There’s different ways of enabling structures and systems, which is what Saturn’s all about. But having both the malefics right there, as they go into the 10th house, it’s definitely problem arises. What is the solution that’s gonna be brought?

CB: Right.

CW: And it’s definitely more of creative thinking, kind of going outside the box, seeing through a different perspective-type solution. And this isn’t just for the three-year transit, too. This is just a little taste of what Saturn in Aquarius is gonna be. Because, of course, it doesn’t really fully enter until the end of 2020.

CB: Yeah, this is like the preview that we get for just like, what, three months of Saturn in Aquarius and what that transit is gonna be like through their 10th house, which is gonna be a long, like three-year thing. But Saturn is just gonna dip into Aquarius. You’re gonna get this little preview and perhaps kind of a challenging one, especially with Mars going in at the same time in March. But then Saturn will retrograde back out over the summer, and it won’t return back, finally, for the full pass through Aquarius, until December.

CW: Yeah. And like what I like about this, too, is that this is like a little vacation away from Saturn in Capricorn. Like once we get into March, April, May, even into June—while Saturn is in Aquarius—this is a nice little break away from Saturn in Capricorn. At least, you know, the energy gets shifted a little bit over to something different. And this is more breathable. There’s more breathing room here, so I think it might be a little bit easier to kind of go about. But having Saturn in that 10th house perspective, you know, being in that superior position to the ascendant, I do think is gonna cause a little bit more stress of like, “Oh, I gotta get this done. Oh, I gotta handle this. This is something I gotta take care of right now, that’s very imminent.” Not, you know, something you can put on the back burner.

CB: Yeah. Anytime a planet like Saturn goes into one of the angular houses, it really starts aspecting, through a hard aspect, all of the other angular houses, and you see the topics associated with those houses come into play in some way. So while the primary focus of this transit of Saturn going into Aquarius and into the 10th house is career matters and the public life or reputation, and what you are doing or what you want to do with your life, it’s also gonna activate and bring, potentially, some tensions or at least some changes in the other areas. Like the 1st house and your sense of self, and your mind and body, as well as the 7th house, which it’ll be square to, which is your relationships with other people. And then, finally, the 4th house, which is your home and your living situation and your parents, but also, just your private life, as opposed to your public life, which is the 10th house.

CW: Yeah. I mean, I love astrology for a lot of different reasons, but like I love how it’s all connected in this area. Having Saturn going through the 10th house, you know, this is Saturn handing you more responsibility, handing you more duty and obligations through this area. And having that opposition to the 4th house in that sense, where you live is kind of dependent on what you do for work. Same thing with, you know, what you do for work will kind of have a say-so with how you define yourself and what your personality’s like, and also, the relationships that you have in your life. So having Saturn going in this angular position is definitely going to make things a lot more of a bigger deal than they have been in the past few years, while Saturn was in Sagittarius and Capricorn.

CB: Yeah, definitely. So the final thing I wanna mention about that Saturn in Aquarius is just a delineation that I always thought was really good in Rob Hand’s book, Planets in Transit—which is really excellent. It’s like the standard, contemporary work for studying transits and talking about transits, especially through the houses, but also, to each other. He talks about how people that have Saturn going through the 10th house—like it’s about to be for the Taurus rising folks—14 years earlier, Saturn would have been moving through the 4th house, which is at the very bottom of the chart. And sometimes during that time period, people set a foundation in their life over a two-or-three-year-period—that they then build up to and then eventually culminates with respect to their career—once they reach the transit of Saturn to the 10th house. So some people, if you’re trying to understand what this transit is gonna be about, once Saturn goes into Aquarius—both in March and then especially in December—think about what you were working on approximately like 14 years ago with respect to your career and your overall life direction. And try to contextualize it within the longer-term like that and you may start to understand the events and themes and circumstances that are gonna culminate in your life over the course of the next two to three years.

CW: Yeah, I would definitely agree.

CB: Okay. So that’s March. Those are the big things, that ingress into Aquarius.

CW: What happens in April?

CB: So in April, we got the Jupiter-Pluto conjunction in Capricorn, but not a lot.

CW: Venus enters Gemini, but that won’t be important later. Jupiter conjoining Pluto—is it important?

CB: I don’t place that much importance, unless it’s like really close to a personal planet in a person’s chart. I mean, we were talking about the Aries rising people more because of it being in their 10th house. But with this hitting in the 9th house of the Taurus rising people, unless it’s just some sort of sudden expansion of either an educational program or a desire to expose themselves to foreign cultures and like travel, or alternatively, foreign belief systems and like developing a new belief system, that can be a good thing. But there might be a tendency to go towards extremes during this time if this is hitting a personal planet in your chart. So maybe you expand really rapidly or too fast or become too obsessed with something, and it may be good to develop a sense of moderation to whatever extent you can. I guess that’s usually the best advice with a Jupiter-Pluto transit.

CW: Yeah, maybe don’t learn too much.

CB: Learn too much?

CW: I see this as like finding an old, archaic text and like getting way too deep into it and you’re like living your life off of it.

CB: Well, there’s this thing I’ve heard called ‘the passion of the convert’, which is like nobody’s more passionate about a religion than somebody that just recently converted to it and suddenly is sold versus the person who’s been around it their whole life, and they sort of know the pros and cons and maybe have adopted a more moderate approach to whatever that belief system is. Sometimes when you first learn—even like astrology or something—you can like wanna go as far and as fast as you can, and sometimes you can go too far, too fast and maybe not be able to do it in moderation as much as you should.

CW: Yeah. Just like anything, you don’t wanna overdo it. Everything is okay in moderation. But overdoing anything will lead to some type of problem.

CB: Sure. So that’s the main thing that’s happening.

CW: Just to put that out there, April’s a pretty chill month for that part.

CB: Yeah. Well, and also, it’s like the Sun, later in the month, of course, moves into—

CW: Taurus.

CB: —Taurus. Mercury goes into Taurus. We’ve got the New Moon in Taurus. That’s always like the month of like new beginning for the Taurus rising people or even the Sun sign Taurus people.

CW: Feeling, yeah, a lot more self-expressive, a lot more in your zone. Then we get to, well, not the Taurus birthday.

CB: Then we get to May and things start to heat up a little bit. We have the halfway point where Saturn stations retrograde in Aquarius around the 11th of May. So that’s the halfway point where we’ll have, again, another intensification of the energy of Saturn going through their 10th house of career and an important turning point. This is really the most important point where I think you’re definitely gonna get that preview of what that longer-term Saturn transit through the 10th house is gonna be like over the next few years, when it stations here. And what’s interesting is that Mars departs from Aquarius just a couple of days later, around the same time, and it moves into the 11th house for those with Taurus rising. So especially for the people with day charts, that’s gonna be like an alleviation of some of the tensions with respect to career that are happening at that time, in the month leading up to that, and instead, Mars moves into the 11th house. So some of the tensions coming up could be more focused on the sphere of friends or groups at that point for about a month.

CW: Yeah. And I just think that, well, not only is Saturn stationing direct—or Saturn’s stationing retrograde. But right before that Pluto stations retrograde, then Saturn stations retrograde. And then like a few days after that Pluto stations retrograde—Jupiter stations retrograde. So there’s a big movement where big planets are moving this way and then stopping and moving backwards. And so, I think that that whole area of the 9th and 10th house is kind of gonna go do a quick slowdown and a turn away. And I think, like you said, that station retrograde will definitely bring up a lot more themes that you’ll experience in the next few years. Having Mars going into the 11th house, rather than being in the 10th house during that time, does bring some alleviation in that area.

CB: Right.

CW: But I think that some of those 10th house topics will still come in because Saturn will still be—or Mars will still be in Aquarius once Saturn stations retrograde.

CB: Yeah, I think it’s mainly the day chart people who are gonna get that alleviation, whereas the night chart people are gonna have Saturn stationing in their 10th house for the very first time.

CW: Yeah.

CB: So that could actually be the intensification of some of the challenges or obstacles coming up that they then have to confront or deal with for the first time when it comes to those career matters.

CW: Well, and what else is interesting about talking about career matters is Venus stations retrograde a few days. Like, what? On that same day, as Mars enters Pisces?

CB: Yeah, Venus is stationing retrograde in May, in Gemini. And Jupiter’s like stationing the day after that in Capricorn.

CW: Yeah. And with Venus retrograde in Gemini, in the 2nd house of money, there’s definitely some career/financial matters both coming into play at the same time.

CB: Yeah. Well, and Venus, of course, is the ruling planet of those with Taurus rising. So sometimes that can make that—

CW: A little bit more of a bigger deal.

CB: Yeah, it can make Venus transits a little bit more important for you than they might be for somebody else. Just like we were talking about in the previous rising sign horoscope about the Mars retrograde being a bigger deal for the Aries rising people. So here we have Venus stationing retrograde at 21° of Gemini, in the 2nd house of finances and resources and money, basically, for those that have Taurus rising.

CW: Yeah, I think this one’s gonna be kind of interesting for Taurus risings. I’ve been kind of trying to use the word—for Venus retrograde in Gemini—a ‘value change’ or a ‘value shift’. Changing what we value. Changing where we place our value, where we place our money, especially for Taurus risings, since this is the 2nd house of income, what you own, what you physically have. This is, you know, a mutable sign of change. Venus already naturally rules money and then you have Venus being their ruling planet. This might be a big change in what exactly Taurus risings, you know, value, what they don’t value, what they’re placing their interests in, and what they’re doing with their money, or how they’re seeing the value of their money. I think this is gonna be kind of a little bit more of a mundane thing. But I also think it’s just gonna really come up more, especially for Taurus risings, as a value change, both in the sense of like currency, of like where they put their money, but also, like where they actually value themselves.

CB: Sure. Yeah, and sometimes it can be more mundane in terms of a retrograde can often involve reviewing things and just looking back and reassessing what you’re doing with things. And a reassessment in the 2nd house with Venus can just be something as simple as assessing, you know, what am I spending all of my money on? Or am I spending excessive amounts of money on things like, you know, luxuries, or like optional items? Have I been spending too much on, you know—

CW: Partying. Venus in Gemini. Socializing. Going out too much.

CB: Yeah. Or like, you know, food or sweets or something like that.

CW: I was about to say, Venus in Gemini is all about sweets. And that Venus retrograde—maybe it’s time to cut back on the sweets a little bit, Taurus rising.

CB: Sure. So one of the things that’s funny about that Venus retrograde, though, is it stations retrograde, squaring Neptune up in the 11th house.

CW: Yeah.

CB: So Neptune in the 11th, that’s been a long-term transit for most of the decade, I guess, for quite a while of Neptune going through Pisces, in the 11th house of friends, and that creating some nebulousness surrounding friends and friendship and groups for those with Taurus rising in general. But having Venus stationing square Neptune at that time could put some nebulousness surrounding financial matters involving friends as a sort of hallmark, somehow, of that Venus retrograde period for those with Taurus rising.

CW: Yeah. Maybe, you know, if you have money interests shared with friends, that might become more of a confusing matter.

CB: Sure.

CW: More uncertainty. I think more money issues. While it’s not like you’re gonna go broke. I just think there will definitely be some uncertainty there and maybe some confusion that you’re gonna need to clear up. And I think that clearing up that confusion is gonna be that value change and that value shift that Venus in Gemini’s kind of looking for.

CB: Sure. So let’s see, so we got that going on. And basically, like if you had some sort of financial thin involving a friend at that time, just be open to perhaps there being miscommunications surrounding that or some nebulousness surrounding it, so that if you’re worried about like watching every penny and how you’re spending it—especially if you’re loaning it or you’re working with a friend—that may not be the best time to do something like that. Or at least you might have to let go of the idea that this is gonna be like a clean financial transaction that’s gonna go off without any sort of hitch.

CW: Yeah.

CB: All right. So going back to our calendar here. Talked about the Venus station, Jupiter station retrograde in Capricorn, which is, again, just an intensification of some of that 9th house stuff.

CW: We get the eclipses.

CB: Yeah, now we get into eclipse season. Cuz we get halfway through the year and we get the next set of eclipses, and they start moving into different signs.

CW: Yeah. I thought the calendars had when the nodes change signs. So the nodes change signs the week that Venus stations retrograde in May. And although we’ll still have another eclipse in Cancer in the summer, when those nodes shift, I think that’s gonna be a huge deal. I feel like everyone kind of felt that nodal shift last year when they went into Cancer and Capricorn. And that focus of putting things on the 3rd house of short-distance travel, you know, siblings, and also, the 9th house of far-distance travel, education, all that kind of stuff is now getting turned, and things are gonna start being focused on the 8th and the 2nd house for Taurus risings. And the 2nd house is all about money that you have and the 8th house is all about other people’s money.

CB: Yeah. So anytime the nodes shift that means we’re gonna get a shift where eclipses start taking place in that pair of signs. And that’s definitely the major topic that comes up where, here, we have the North Node going into Gemini and the South Node going into Sagittarius. And then not long after that, in early June, we get the first eclipse, which is a lunar eclipse that’s taking place in Sag.

CW: I thought the first one was in Gemini. Well, that one’s also a penumbral eclipse, I think, too.

CB: Well, yeah.

CW: It’s a little far.

CB: Okay. Let me animate the chart, just so we can actually see what we’re talking about here.

CW: Yeah, that’s the first—

CB: So that’s too far. So that’s a Gemini New Moon. So definitely like a new beginning or setting a new foundation in terms of financial matters. But the first eclipse that we’re talking about, I think, is this one.

CW: Yeah, that one is an eclipse. Let me go to the eclipse time and date.

CB: It’s like kind of far out, but I think it’s close enough. So that’s June 5, and that’s gonna be a lunar eclipse that’s taking place in Sagittarius. So normally that would indicate some sort of culmination of events with respect to shared finances or other people’s money and the role that that plays in your life, or that perhaps starting to play a larger role in your life and having more of a focus and more of a spotlight on it compared to other years of your life. But this is really setting off a series of events that are gonna become much more important later in the year, once we get the first full set of eclipses on that axis of Sagittarius and Gemini.

CW: Yeah. And that 2nd and 8th house is a very interesting axis to have eclipses on. And it’s gonna bring up a lot of things regarding the 2nd house of money, what you own, what you have, but it’s also gonna be bringing a lot out of the 8th house. And the 8th house is definitely a harder house to really talk about or to kind of necessarily discuss with a happy mood all the time because the 8th house is other people’s money. It can be debts. It can be insurance. It can be, yeah, like money owed. It can be your partner’s money and finances and something that you don’t even have control of.

CB: It’s interesting with the Venus retrograde, though. We have the Venus retrograde in the 2nd of personal finances and resources, and then we have the lunar eclipse happening in Sagittarius, in the 8th house of shared resources. So that seems to be one of the major themes and one of the major shifts that’s coming up this year, and is gonna be part of the focus for those with Taurus rising, that financial axis.

CW: Yeah, that’s really gonna be lit up, especially by the time we get into May and June. But what was the—can you pull up the June calendar? What was the next thing that we have going on in June?

CB: So the halfway point in the Venus retrograde cycle is on the 3rd. Which, again, is really weird, cuz that’s going through their 2nd house. And then just two days later, we get the Sagittarius eclipse. We do have another Mercury retrograde. The second Mercury retrograde of the year, I believe, in Cancer stations retrograde on the 18th of June. So for the Cancer—for the Taurus rising people that’s happening in their 3rd house of communication, siblings, short-distance travel. It could just amplify things having to do with like miscommunication. Or I’ve seen people having like car issues or needing to at least revisit their traveling situation, having a retrograde in the 3rd house.

CW: And, well, like what you said earlier, too, about like speaking the ideas that you know. This might symbolize a time in which you really start reformulating, you know, ideas, or reformulating how you speak the ideas that you know or going across that area again. You know, retrogrades are a time of revisiting, rethinking, reviewing. And so, this is just gonna be a time of reviewing and rethinking, you know, stuff like how you speak, stuff like your siblings, stuff like short-distance travel.

CB: Yeah. Sometimes when a retrograde happens in a certain house, it can mean reestablishing contact with somebody if communication had previously dropped off with somebody who was associated with that house. So siblings or extended family. So if you have like a sibling or a relative that you haven’t talked with much, sometimes they can come back into your life or attempt to reestablish communications with you during that time.

CW: Yeah, definitely.

CB: All right. The other thing we have is the other eclipse that’s happening in June, which is just after the Sun ingresses into Cancer. We get a solar eclipse that takes place in Cancer, which, again, ends up being in the 3rd house here. So for some reason, we’ve got—I believe this is the final of the Cancer/Capricorn eclipses, right?

CW: It’s the final one.

CB: So it’s already been bouncing back and forth, as we talked about earlier, between that axis of like what you know, what you’ve learned in the 9th house and how you communicate it in the 3rd house. And this is the final one in terms of setting up a six-month period of completing and initiating a new phase in your life, in how you communicate with other people and how you communicate what you know to the world in general.

CW: Yeah, this can be like that last, you know—that last chapter of what have you focused on with the nodes in your 3rd and your 9th house? And it’s kind of like with everything that you’ve learned, what are you doing with it now? And that eclipse is kind of like that tipping point, that last hurrah, kind of focusing on what you know, what you’re doing with it, and how you speak it and implementing that somewhere in your life. And then that part of your life finally gets put away.

CB: Yeah. And that could be also some events that are happening in like a sibling’s life, that’s close to you, or in a family, like a relative. Like a niece or nephew or aunt or uncle.

CW: Yeah, sometimes it’s not even about you.

CB: Yeah. Yeah, sometimes it’s not. There’s like other people. The houses sometimes just represent other people in your life and important things that are happening around you that may or may not directly impact your life.

CW: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right. So that’s bringing us into—we have one last actual major thing we need to mention at the very end of June, and that is Mars.

CW: Yeah.

CB: So Mars ingresses into Aries on the 27th of June. And that’s important because normally Mars spends like a month or so in a sign. But here, it’s gonna start slowing down, and it’s gonna station retrograde in Aries. So it’s actually gonna spend most of like the greater part of the rest of the year in Aries from this point forward, right?

CW: Yeah, I don’t even think it enters Taurus until 2021.

CB: Does it?

CW: I don’t think so.

CB: Okay.

CW: But we’ll get there. We’ll figure that out when we get there. But Mars in Aries for the next, basically, like six or seven months is gonna be pretty hardcore for Taurus risings because Mars is gonna be in the 12th house. And regardless, if you’re a day or a night chart, regardless of how Mars treats you, that’s still a very difficult place to have Mars, in a house that isn’t seen or visible by the ascendant. I always like putting—like when Mars is in the 12th house, it’s like you’re angry but you don’t know why, and you can’t really pinpoint where your frustrations are coming from. And I feel like that’s just gonna be a really big theme for Taurus risings this year, with Mars in Aries, and especially going forward and then slowing down and stationing retrograde eventually. But having Mars first go into Aries is gonna feel very exciting at first, cuz there’s, you know, all of this new energy, and Taurus risings could probably use all of the energy that they can. So you go and accomplish stuff, do what they gotta do. But as Mars does enter Aries and brings up those 12th house significations of the unknown, the subconscious, repressed, unacknowledged parts of yourself, things that you’re not seeing—I think that Mars is just gonna amplify and heat up a lot of those problems that can kind of be put underneath the surface. And, you know, if you try to just, you know, put a cover on something that’s trying to push itself up, it’s just gonna push even harder.

CB: Sure. So one of the topics and themes that’s always been traditionally associated with the 12th house is like enemies or people that are at cross-purposes to you. So sometimes Mars going through or transiting through the 12th house can indicate like greater tensions or greater conflict with enemies. And while that sounds difficult, sometimes it can be important to have hidden tensions rise to the surface, so that they can be dealt with and addressed directly, and then, hopefully, you know, sort of fixed in some way, to whatever extent that they can. And sometimes that’s like a necessary part of a Mars transit through the 12th house.

CW: Yeah. And the 12th house, while it is repressed and unacknowledged stuff, it needs to come up, and it’s gonna come up eventually and somehow. And Mars is a great planner, a great—not planner. A great planet and a great vehicle for that. No other way to kind of let it all out than through a martial way of just getting it out there.

CB: Right. Yeah, so dealing with that. Sometimes self-undoing is like a 12th house topic. So dealing with issues, making sure that you’re not undermining yourself, so that you’re not your own worst enemy, and if there’s any instances where it can come up, where you acknowledge that that’s what you’re doing, just sort of confronting it. Confronting the shadow in some way.

CW: But I think there’s a pretty big distinction between this Mars, though, and Mars at the end of the year, though. Cuz while Mars is first entering Aries and direct, it’s gonna feel new, and it’s gonna feel questionable. Of all these themes that we’re talking about, they’re gonna come up, but I think it’s gonna be a little bit harder to pinpoint. But the longer Mars is in Aries, and as we get later on into the year when Mars stations retrograde, I think is when all of those issues are gonna be really—by that point, they will all become—man, I cannot talk right now.

CB: That’s all right. You’re getting a cold, and I dragged you into doing horoscopes. But you’re actually doing an amazing job.

CW: Yeah, I know. I’m surprised. We’re like almost into an hour.

CB: We’re about an hour into this.

CW: And we’re not even six months in.

CB: We were shooting for 30-40 minutes. So I think we blew that time.

CW: We totally blew that.

CB: That’s fine. So what you were saying—and I think I love the point you were making—is that Mars moving into Aries in June is just the beginning of a sequence of events. This is not—things are not gonna be introduced and wrapped up. But what’s gonna happen is you’re opening like a chapter of a book that has a bunch of subheadings, that is about that long-term, six-month transit of Mars through Aries.

CW: Yeah, you don’t know what the movie’s about in the first 30 seconds of the movie. You know what I mean? I like that for astrology. But like this Mars in Aries cycle, it’s like we just started the movie, give it a couple of minutes. Give it a couple of months to really see what this develops into.

CB: Sure.

CW: And you will definitely know, especially by the time we get into July. July is when I think shit really gets crazy, cuz immediately, July 1, Saturn retrogrades back into Capricorn. And all of that stuff that everyone, but Taurus risings have dealt with since the end of 2017—all that Saturn in Capricorn—it all comes back. We had a cool three-or-four-month break in the second quarter with Saturn in Aquarius.

CB: Right.

CW: Now all of it comes back to the 9th house.

CB: So it’s like you thought—for the Taurus rising people, it’s like you thought you were finished with that educational program, with that shift in terms of your beliefs or your religious structures while Saturn was going through Aquarius from March until this point in the year, but then Saturn retrogrades back. And then, suddenly, it turns out there’s like one last lesson that you have to get in to make sure you got the point of that transit over the past two-and-a-half-years.

CW: Yeah, this is like really coming back and like handling things for the last and final time. Really being Saturn in Capricorn about it. You know, if you’re in school, “Let me just graduate. Let me just handle this. Get this all cleared up and situated to where I can move on from it.” But as Saturn goes back into Capricorn, it’s kind of like you’re not gonna really be able to move forward into that 10th house step until you address what responsibilities and obligations you still have in the 9th house.

CB: And is this close enough for an eclipse? It is, isn’t it? We’ve got a Capricorn lunar eclipse. It’s just like very—

CW: Hold on. I had pulled up time and date. Let me look it up real quick.

CB: Very barely. Cuz we got an issue where the nodes usually be within about like 18°.

CW: July 5 is a penumbral eclipse. Or, no, July 5?

CB: Yeah.

CW: Yeah, that one’s a penumbral lunar eclipse.

CB: Okay.

CW: That’s technically one.

CB: So that’s in Capricorn and that’s just gonna reemphasize some of the things you were saying. Cuz that means we have a culmination of events that’s happening in Capricorn, again, in the 9th house. So it’s not just Saturn retrograding back into that sign to make sure you got the picture, but it’s also having one final, last sort of important Full Moon that’s taking place in that house as well.

CW: And the Full Moons are when, you know, both luminaries are at their—I mean, the Sun doesn’t change its luminosity. But like the Moon’s at full brightness right now. Like things are being able to be seen when they usually wouldn’t be. The Moon is lighting up the night time. And as you have like that Moon lighting up this area, in Capricorn, it’s like, what’s being cemented? What’s being put in place? What’s being finalized here? Cuz this is like the last set. This is definitely the last eclipse that we’ll be having in Cancer and Capricorn for the next nine years.

CB: Right.

CW: Yeah, that’s really the crystallization and the peak of it all.

CB: Yeah. So probably becoming clear about what you believe and what your new belief system is. Or becoming more confident about—

CW: What your new belief system is.

CB: You know, people sometimes find a new philosophy or a new belief system during that time. Other times they reach a new level or state of understanding about what their beliefs are. And a belief doesn’t have to necessarily mean like religious belief, but sometimes it can be your beliefs about like science and the world in general. Like I know a lot of scientists or skeptics who have important 9th house placements and their belief system is the value of science or science education. Or sometimes like atheists who have certain placements in the 9th house and that’s what’s important to them about their belief system. I mean, sometimes even like astrology skeptics. The thing I always love is seeing like astrology skeptics that have Saturn in a night chart, in the 9th house, and their thing is that they don’t believe in astrology, which, ironically, the astrology itself says, that they wouldn’t believe in it.

CW: That’s super funny. Yeah, but I just think at least by this point, what has been wanting to be developed or grown into or cemented/finalized in the 9th house is done. But what is hard to say exactly about this is that it’s not over yet because of the Mars retrograde that’s kind of coming up. Because Saturn comes back in, we have that eclipse. It’s like that culmination, things kind of stop. I know I’m kind of like—

CB: We’ll get to that. It’s gonna station.

CW: We’ll get to that. But I just wanna definitely say this isn’t the ‘end’ end. This is just more of the theoretical, the—what’s the word I’m looking for?

CB: Like the last stretch of the race or something like that. Or the last mile of the journey.

CW: The part which you’re trying to build is done. Now doing something with what you build is another story.

CB: So you’ve like built the house, and now you have to like move in.

CW: Sell it.

CB: Oh, sell it? Okay.

CW: Now you gotta sell the house.

CB: All right. Why are you selling the house if you just built it? Wouldn’t you move into it?

CW: I was thinking like a contractor.

CB: Okay.

CW: I thought that was the analogy you were going for.

CB: So July, Mercury stations direct on the 12th of July. Then we can move, finally, into August. August is kind of a low-key month. The only notable, important thing, outer planet-wise, is the station of Uranus, which stations retrograde at 10° of Taurus around August 15.

CW: That’s gonna be the time that Taurus risings start wildin’ out.

CB: Yeah.

CW: That’s when that makeover might come, that change might all of a sudden happen.

CB: Right. So that’s that additional, sudden change, whether it’s a change that’s coming from within and a sense of like rebelliousness or wanting to break out of old patterns and old restrictions, or whether it’s a change that comes from without, and it is a prompt that sort of forces you to break out of old patterns, even though it’s something you might not have done on your own. But certainly, this is an intensification of that energy right in the middle of August.

CW: Yeah, this is that kind of—this might be a weird analogy, but I’ve been trying to make it work, I guess. Like Uranus in Taurus is kind of like you’re on an iceberg, and it’s melting. And before you get stuck in the water, you have to jump to another one, but it’s like slippery. There’s not a lot of stable ground there. And it’s kind of like, well, this might be the time where you might have to make that jump, and you have to find stable ground where you can find it.

CB: Right. So jump on icebergs at this time, is your advice.

CW: Yeah.

CB: Okay.

CW: And it’s not gonna be like a sticky landing. Like it’s gonna be a slippery landing. Like there’s not a lot of, you know, foundation here. So don’t jump and then just slide right off. Like try to jump and grab on maybe a little bit and kind of go with the waves. I know it’s kind of a weird analogy, but it’s like the idea that, you know, you do need to get uncomfortable. You need to get comfortable with being uncomfortable because that comfort is slowly going away.

CB: Yeah. It looks like in the live chat, which I’m sort of idly—sorry, we’re not interacting much, cuz we’re trying to do 10 different things. But thanks everyone who’s joined us. There’s 163 people watching the livestream.

CW: Oh, wow.

CB: One person, Ann Holloman, says her ascendant is at 10° of Taurus. So that’s exciting.

CW: Yeah, you’ll definitely feel that station retrograde then.

CB: That Uranus station at 10 Taurus will definitely be important for you. There’s another person that says that their Moon is at 3 Taurus. So that first station—what was that, in January, at 2° of Taurus—will be more important for them.

CW: Mm-hmm.

CB: Yeah, so keep your comments and stuff coming in. We appreciate it. So let’s move on to September. Cuz September’s one of the big—

CW: Yeah, September.

CB: —big months.

CW: Yeah. And of course what I love about this year is just like September, October, November, even on a mundane level, those are really intense months that’s coming up this year. But it’s also like some of the most intense months in the astrology, too. And I’ve been trying to say this—no one’s alone in that. This is gonna be a very intense time. Everyone’s gonna be going through this.

CB: So the big thing about September is that’s when Mars finally stations retrograde in Aries.

CW: Yeah. And talking about what we talked about earlier with Mars in the 12th house and, you know, where is this anger or frustration coming from? Or where is my lack of energy coming from? Because, also, during this time, from about August-September, Mars is really slowing down. And Mars is in its home sign. It should feel energized and able to do anything. But as it slows down, it’s kind of like, why am I not having this energy? Where is it not—like why do not have enough fuel for the fire?

CB: Right. And also, for Taurus rising people, it’s in their 12th house. So that’s already kind of like more of a low-energy transit to begin with.

CW: Exactly. And it’s kind of like, where is my energy, you know, being drained from? Or where do I find energy again? Or where is this anger coming from? Where is this frustration coming from? Because in the 12th house, it could be something that isn’t visible to you, you know, at first glance, and it’s something that you kind of have to dig deeper a little bit more into yourself to kind of realize. Like it’s stuff that you repress or not acknowledge, the subconscious. You know, I like that it’s the house of self-undoing, like, you know, self-sabotage. But you also have to go back in there and kind of go, “Okay, what am I doing, and why am I doing it?” And that Mars station retrograde is really gonna be the turning point for that.

CB: Yeah. Cuz it’s not just Mars stationing retrograde, but Mars is stationing at 20° of Aries around September 8 or so. And it’s very closely squaring Saturn at that time, which is back at 25° of Capricorn. So it’s Mars stationing retrograde in the 12th house for Taurus rising people, square Saturn. So a lot of that is like kind of fatigue or like low-energy-type transits in general.

CW: Yeah. And like, let’s say, if you’re deciding to do a lot of traveling at this point, you may get really tired at some point traveling. One thing I wanted to bring up, too, was that Mars is gonna square Saturn and Jupiter and Pluto before it even stations retrograde. It’s gonna square them each three times.

CB: Okay.

CW: And I really think that this is where a lot of the problems are gonna be. While Saturn and Pluto and Jupiter are in the 9th house of belief, Mars making that square to it is like something is not in harmony with what you’re wanting to do with your actions versus like your beliefs, if that makes sense. And that’s not always like—I don’t wanna put that in like a negative light. But like what you’re trying to do may be going against something that you just learned or something that, you know, you just learned. Like maybe you’ve been trying to develop better habits, and then all of a sudden you learn all these habits, but you decide to do the thing that you’ve been not wanting to do anyway. And it’s kind of like that might be the time where that conflict might really start, you know, getting charged up a little bit more and starts becoming a little bit more prevalent in your life.

CB: Sure.

CW: But I think Mars squaring Saturn-Jupiter-Pluto for the month, as it slows down, the Mars station retrograde isn’t gonna come out of the blue. It’s definitely gonna—you’re gonna know that it’s gonna happen. It’s gonna be this progression of slower and slower energy, less and less energy as Mars slows down, as it squares Saturn. There’s a big halt, almost, there. And I think this Mars retrograde is gonna be the time where that shifting starts coming into play, like we talked about earlier.

CB: Sure.

CW: Mars going into Aries at first brings up these ideas, but Mars retrograde might be that time where you actually start addressing the things that were actually causing problems.

CB: Yeah. So the tensions here are between like the 12th house and the 9th house. So potentially there’s tensions between like 12th house topics, things like enemies. Traditionally, again, enemies, sickness, loss, seclusion and tensions between that versus 9th house topics of like travel, foreign things, education, and religion. And yeah, this is more notable and even actually emphasized more. Cuz if you look later in the month, both Jupiter and Saturn in Capricorn, those two planets that are being aspected by square from Mars station direct.

CW: Yeah. So there’s a big forward movement for them, on their part, versus Mars.

CB: Right. It’s like the tension or the conflict that comes up between the 12th house people in your life or the 12th house area somehow precipitates forward movement with the 9th house area in the person’s life. So maybe a conflict with like somebody that’s working at cross-purposes to you suddenly makes you want to move forward again, or free yourself in some way from the 9th house education or beliefs area of your life.

CW: Yeah, I would definitely agree with that.

CB: All right, so that’s the Mars thing. That’s really the main thing that’s happening, in addition to the station, in terms of September. Then we get into October. Pluto also stations direct. So all three of those Capricorn outer planets are stationing direct during this time period, in September-October. We’ve got, what, Mercury stationing retrograde for the third retrograde of the year. And I believe that’s happening in Scorpio. So that’s gonna be in the 7th house for those with Taurus rising. But then it retrogrades back into Libra by the end of October, into the 6th house.

CW: What does this mean? Mercury?

CB: That it’s making an ingress, but it’s doing it backwards.

CW: It’ll be in Scorpio, that’s right. I was like, “Wait, what?”

CB: Let me throw it up on the actual chart, and it’ll show it a little bit better.

CW: Yeah, cuz the Mercury retrograde. Well, so, one thing I will say about the Mercury retrograde—this might be important, it may not be—but this Mercury retrograde stations retrograde at 11° Scorpio, which is where the Mercury retrograde that we just had, the ‘Halloween’ one. That was where that one stationed direct. So if you have personal planets at 11° Scorpio, or 11° of fixed signs, this Mercury retrograde might bring up things that happened the last Mercury retrograde. It might bring those back up again, so I would definitely be a little bit more aware of that. But that’s only for people that really have that specific placement.

CB: Yeah. And since this is happening—since Scorpio is the seventh whole sign house for those with Taurus rising, this is chiefly gonna happen in the sphere of relationships, partnership. If you’re married, it would be your marriage partner, but also, just other close, one-on-one relationships in your life in general. If you have like a business partnership or something, you could see some Mercury retrograde-type snafus, which are things like renegotiations, reconnecting with somebody. Sometimes miscommunication creates a sequence of events over a three-week period that you have to deal with and address. But it’s not usually like a huge issue, it’s just sort of a hassle or a minor annoyance.

CW: Yeah. And one thing, too, is with the 12th house ruling hidden enemies, the 7th house rules open enemies. So this might be, also, some of that time where you deal with Mars being retrograde in your 12th house and those problems that become hidden—you know, people that you’re dealing with in your life kind of come to surface and now become an open enemy, if that makes sense. No one’s talking crap behind your back, but they’re actually saying it to your face now, if that makes sense.

CB: Right.

CW: What does the live chat say?

CB: Some people are asking if we’re doing readings. We’re not really reading specific charts. Although, if people have like specific anecdotes or stories about some of these transits that they’re talking about and how they’ve manifested in their life, we’d certainly love to hear that.

CW: Especially if it’s Taurus rising.

CB: Yeah, Taurus rising people, and give you a shoutout for that. Somebody was asking about donating, but I don’t see where that whole discussion took place. But yeah, we are. If anybody wants to like throw us a few bucks for coffee or dinner. We’ll probably get some food after this, so you could always donate in the livestream and super chat.

CW: I don’t wanna take you away from your—

CB: Long work.

CW: Yeah, from your work.

CB: I mean, we’ve only been doing this one for an-hour-and-12-minutes.

CW: Oh, only an-hour-and-12-minutes? That’s not bad.

CB: I’m already two videos through this, so I think I’m doing great.

CW: Man, at this rate, you’ll be done by lunchtime tomorrow.

CB: Yeah, exactly. It’s gonna be a long night.

CW: It’s gonna be a long night. Everyone should donate to Chris, so he can have money for coffee to stay up doing this.

CB: Yeah, I’m gonna need a lot of coffee. All right, so back to October. We’ve just got the Mercury retrograde. It starts out in the 7th house for those with Taurus rising, but it goes back into the 6th.

CW: Yeah. Well, the one thing, too, is in October, that Full Moon in Libra. While Mars is retrograde in Aries—or not that Full Moon in Libra. I can’t believe I just said that. The New Moon in Libra and the Full Moon in Aries, I think is gonna be something pretty intense to look at. The 6th house is being brought up here, and Mars is gonna be opposing the Sun in that 6th house.

CB: Yeah. Cuz that happens the same day as the Mercury retrograde station. So Mercury’s stationing retrograde at 11 Scorpio. And the Sun exactly opposes Mars at 21° of Aries at that time, which is important because since Mars is retrograde, that’s the exact halfway point through the Mars retrograde cycle.

CW: Yeah, that’s when Mars is gonna be the brightest and the most red and the biggest in the night sky he’s gonna get, so Mars issues are gonna be very prevalent. And what I think is interesting—especially for like how the Taurus rising chart is set up—is we’re now talking about the 6th house of problems and habits and routine. And this might be that time where, as Mars is retrograde, this might be bringing a bigger focus as to what are you doing to address things in a habitual manner to change. And especially, too, like how you just moved it to the—oh, no, you didn’t move it to the Full Moon in Aries.

CB: I just moved it to Mercury retrogrades back into Libra, and then it’s gonna station direct there. So I wanted to show the chart for Taurus rising, so we can visualize what it looks like to have Mercury stationing direct in the 6th house, and yeah, maybe revisiting some 6th house topics that you thought you had finished. 6th house is things like your work. If you own a business, it can be your employees and having to revisit something that you dealt with previously with them, or renegotiate something with them.

CW: Could be if you’re in a relationship, and you’re breaking up, this might be figuring out who’s getting the pet.

CB: Okay. 6th house is pets, right?

CW: Yeah.

CB: 6th house is also—like you were saying earlier—like health and what you do to maintain your health, or what you do in order to fix health issues when things go awry.

CW: Yeah. I mean, Mars in Aries is just gonna be bringing up all of the problems and kind of bringing up to the surface. And this might be the time to really go, okay, what can I actually do that’s different, that’s gonna make a difference? What can I change in my habits, in my eating, in my schedule? In anything really. But the big thing, now that I’m looking at October backwards—okay, there it is. Well, obviously, the big thing I really think that’s gonna be big for Taurus’ is that Full Moon in Taurus that we have coming up on Halloween of 2020. Because that one’s gonna be exactly on top of Uranus, if I’m correct.

CB: Let me pull that up.

CW: Or is that the New Moon? Nope, the Full Moon in Taurus will be exactly on Uranus.

CB: Oh, yeah, good point. So the Full Moon—looks like it takes place at about 8° of Taurus, and Uranus is at 8° of Taurus at the same time.

CW: And yeah, with Uranus retrograde at this point, if you’re a Taurus rising and you’re single, you might date someone that’s a little bit different. This is really gonna just highlight a lot of those Uranus themes of change, of sudden liberation, of freedom, getting uncomfortable, extreme ups and downs, volatility.

CB: To me, it’s probably something like they initiated as like a makeover or a change in terms of either their body or their physical appearance or their personality six months earlier, when there was a New Moon in Taurus. They’ll probably fully see the results of that in their life become clear and become fully evident at this time, during this Full Moon. But yeah, it might be tied in with some of those unexpected—or maybe not unexpected, but some of those radical changes that they’ve been making this year, especially around those two Uranus stations earlier in the year.

CW: Yeah, this might be when it all comes up to, you know, culminate and kind of turn into something. I would definitely look out for that Full Moon in Taurus for you, Taurus risings. That one’s probably gonna be one of the bigger deals this year.

CB: Okay, so that takes us into November, finally.

CW: November.

CB: And we get Mercury stationing direct in Libra—as we were just talking about—in their 6th house, on the 3rd of November. But more importantly, Mars finally stations direct on the 13th of November in Aries, and we get, essentially, the end of the Mars retrograde cycle. Although, it’s still gonna take a little bit longer before Mars completely gets out of Aries. And that’s not gonna happen until—like you were saying—early next year.

CW: Yeah. And also, I thought I had it exactly—but I thought the Mars stations direct right on the New Moon in Scorpio.

CB: Let me pull it up.

CW: It is within about that same weekend. But what I think is really cool about this is having Mars, the ruler of, you know, Scorpio—having that New Moon there, it’s kind of like being able to really set in new intentions truthfully, with that stuff in Scorpio, and having Mars be like, “All right. I just changed all of these things about myself. Now it’s time to do all of that again, but in a different way.” I think this is just gonna be a really refreshing New Moon in Scorpio that’s actually gonna give everyone some energy to go and do something, and it’s not all locked up, Mars retrograde in Aries.

CB: Yeah. So you’re right. That New Moon in Scorpio is happening around the 14th or so, and that’s right when Mars is stationing at 15° of Aries. So that’s cool and that’s the end of the retrograde in the 12th house. Although Mars will still take a little while to start moving forward and pick up steam before it leaves the 12th house, at least the major sequence of events with respect to that Mars retrograde is over. The end of the month of November brings a new set of eclipses, with the first one, and the more important one, being this Gemini eclipse that’s taking place on the 30th of November.

CW: Yeah, that eclipse.

CB: That old chestnut.

CW: That old one.

CB: Yeah. So 30th of November. Let me throw up the chart for that.

CW: Throw it up. Yeah, that’s an eclipse.

CB: So this is back to the financial axis for the Taurus rising people. It’s cuz it’s happening in their 2nd house.

CW: Yeah. And having that Sun transit the 8th house is bringing illumination to, you know, 8th house topics of other people’s money, bringing together those things, meshing together of your money and someone else’s money. But having that Full Moon and having that eclipse in Gemini—there might be some things that might happen that were maybe unexpected, or certain things that were out of your control get brought up, that bring your attention towards your money and other people’s money. God, I forget who said this on Twitter the other day, but it’s just been stuck in my head. But it’s like eclipses are like when life happens to you. Like it’s not really in your control and that’s just one thing that you have to kind of leave open with eclipses. But just know that they’re gonna be themed around money and debts and things like that, so be aware, be prepared. And whatever’s gonna be happening in like May and June—when this really kind of like sits in—this is when it’s starting to come to culmination and starting to really reveal itself.

CB: Yeah. Cuz there would have been a New Moon here, in their 2nd house, earlier in the year. And that was like the starting of some sort of sequence of events with respect to their personal finances and resources. But now we get a culmination of events, that’s a more important culmination of events, because it’s also an eclipse.

CW: Yeah.

CB: So it’s gonna be a culmination of events that has a six-month-long cycle to fully play out. So that could be positive, that could be more challenging. It’s really gonna depend on your birth chart. But the main thing that we need to say, and the main keywords, are just that there’s gonna be spotlight on the 2nd house and your personal resources or your financial resources with this eclipse, especially starting around the time of this eclipse in late November.

CW: Definitely.

CB: So that’s then going to take us into the final month. And let me throw the chart up.

CW: December’s quite a doozy.

CB: December is one of the biggest months, the most notable months of 2020, because we have not just the second eclipse. So we get another eclipse that takes place on the 14th of December in Sagittarius. So this brings up the axis you were talking about earlier, which is the 8th house, which is other people’s money, and this bouncing back and forth—for some reason, greater focus being paid attention to for the Taurus rising people—and the difference between like their money and how it relates to other people’s money and the interdependence between those two areas of their life. You know, how they make money and how they have financial stability is not independent from other people. But in some parts of our life, or some times in our life more than others, it’s somehow intertwined with either our partner’s money or just other people in general. So sometimes that can mean things like inheritance. Other times it can mean things like taxes and having to adopt like better approaches to dealing with taxes. But yeah, other times it can just mean like a partner’s money, or like a business partner even.

CW: Yeah, business partner, your partners, any debts that you might have. Insurance. There’s a lot of different things that can come up with the 8th house. That’s why I’m more of one of those people, I’m like, I would sit and wait to kind of see what that one exactly is gonna be.

CB: Oh, right.

CW: Cuz the 8th house can kind of hit in a lot of different ways.

CB: Yeah. I mean, cuz that can also be an issue. So it’s inheritance. But it can also pertain to issues of like mortality and just the topic or the theme of mortality in your life in different ways.

CW: Yeah. And death can definitely come up in a lot of different ways. Well, some people be like, “Oh, my God. Am I gonna die?” It’s like, “No, you’re not gonna die. But themes around death might be a little bit more in your face than normal, than you might normally deal with.” So that’s definitely something to look forward to.

CB: Yeah, I’ve had people, like clients who had like an 8th house transit and suddenly they just felt very compelled to write a will for the first time and just deal with like what happens, even if they still didn’t die or weren’t planning to die for like 20 or 30 years. Like they had never sat down and said, “What happens if something happens to me? And where does my stuff go?”

CW: I’ve had the nodes transit my 8th house. And besides everything that’s happened to me, I do have a life insurance policy, too, just in case anything happens when I die, like I’ve got something set up for that. And that could be something that you do during the 8th house, crossing your T’s and dotting your I’s for the afterlife maybe.

CB: Definitely. But that being said, that is not the most major thing that’s happening in December.

CW: Nope.

CB: The major thing that’s happening in December is Saturn finally finishes its three-year transit through Aquarius, and it moves—or through Capricorn, and it moves into Aquarius, where it’s gonna stay for the next two or three years. And then Jupiter finishes its one-year transit through Capricorn and moves into Aquarius almost simultaneously. And then both of these planets immediately meet up and conjoin in the first degree of Aquarius on the 21st of December.

CW: Yeah, on the solstice. Which is pretty crazy, not gonna lie. It’s pretty crazy thinking about it. Cuz the big thing, too—two big things—is, one, this is a new Jupiter-Saturn cycle. Jupiter and Saturn conjoin every 20 years. But this one’s different because this is the first one in air signs. Which, of course, for the next 200 years, all of the Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions will be in air signs. So this is kind of really kicking off a whole new world in a certain way, and that’s more on a mundane level. But on that personal level, when we go back to career implications for Taurus risings—with this all going to their 10th house—I think this is also gonna drag along, you know, everything that they’ve been building up with their 9th house. What have they been learning? What have they been practicing? What have they been believing? It all kind of comes into the 10th house of doing something with it. And the 10th house, yeah, it is the career. It is, you know, how the public knows you and how people see you. But one of my favorite ways to interpret the 10th house is it being that top of the sky. Like everyone can see it. There’s no hiding from it.

CB: The most visible part of the sky.

CW: Exactly. It can bring up bigger life stuff. You know, I’ll have clients that are retired, and it’s like, well, they’re not doing anything in their career when they have a 10th house, you know, transit, cuz they’re retired. They’re doing anything.

CB: Sure.

CW: But it’s funny how you can see like a lot of bigger life things kind of come up. Like a lot of old people get like a lot of drama. So like think of it in that way.

CB: Not just, “What is my reputation?” but “What was my contribution to the world, and what is my legacy, in terms of how I’m known and what my greater impact on the world was through my career and through my actions?”

CW: Exactly. And that Jupiter-Saturn conjunction kind of starting—well, ending 2020, but starting 2021, I think is a really big time for Taurus risings to be like, “What have I learned? And what am I gonna do with it?” Like, yeah, this is just, you know, “Oh, it’s time to start working on your career.” But like, what is your legacy? What are you building up for the next 20 years, essentially? And this is a 20-year cycle. What are you gonna build and accomplish within the means of your career? And sometimes that can sound a little intimidating to people, but you’ve got time, you’ve got the education. You’ve gone through what you’ve gone through with the 9th house to learn. Now it’s just the time to take action.

CB: Yeah. And especially what’s going on in the career sector here with Saturn now firmly transiting through their 10th house—like I said earlier—is not necessarily something new, usually. But it’s something—especially for people that are older—that is probably a cycle that they initiated in terms of their career 14 years earlier, that is now reaching a sort of culmination. And one of the things I like about this conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is that they get this lovely boost for this first full year of Saturn going through Aquarius. And some of the heavier side of that energy—which has to do with restructuring things or creating firm foundations in terms of one’s career—sometimes that can be like a hard plodding energy. But with Jupiter coming through and conjoining Saturn, and then staying in Aquarius for most of the year with Saturn, it’s really gonna help balance it out and create much more of an optimistic, like growth-oriented vibe rather than things just like slowing down and crystallizing in terms of the career and the 10th house.

CW: Yeah. And this, I think, is gonna be a really healthy dose of—what’s that saying? It’s like ‘with good things comes great responsibility’.

CB: Sure.

CW: Like I feel like that’s what it’s gonna be. It’s like not only are you gonna have like Jupiter transiting Aquarius, where there’s growth and potential. If you’re Taurus rising, Jupiter’s gonna enter Aquarius and gonna be transiting your midheaven. And this is a 2021 topic, but like I’ve seen so many successful people like have Jupiter on the midheaven—or transit their midheaven when they start their business. So if you’ve been going to school, and you’ve been wanting to start something, like this really is that time for you in so many different ways. But having Saturn there is really giving the discipline and like the structure and the foundation enough to really create something long term here, and to really, you know, kind of move mountains here. Like this isn’t just, you know, a 10th house transit of career topics being brought into play, but more on a bigger scale, like you said. What’s your legacy? What are you doing with your life? What are you building? And what responsibilities do you have to take on? And what opportunities are available for you?

CB: Sure. So all that being said, that doesn’t necessarily mean that’s gonna be a completely easy transit. Because, you know, best-case scenario, Saturn transits to the 10th house can entail a greater period of responsibility in terms of your work and your career and having to put much more energy into that area than at other times in your life. In the worst-case scenario, sometimes a Saturn transit through the 10th can be letting go of a career or having to move away from a career field that otherwise you had been focused on, and maybe leaving one job or even getting fired from one job. What is that saying? Like when one path is sort of closed—

CW: When one door closes, another one opens.

CB: Right. So I think that’s something that might be important for some people, especially night chart people, to keep in mind as they’re going through this Saturn transit through the 10th house. While sometimes there may be a stop sign that comes up in some instances over the next couple of years, sometimes that may be necessary. And while it may not feel good in the moment, in the long term, it may push you in a direction that is constructive, that you wouldn’t have gone otherwise.

CW: Well, it’s like, yeah, in life you’re gonna hit stop signs, but you never have a stop sign on a one-way road. Just go make a left, make a right, take a different way around this situation. Or stop and then keep going. Like stop signs or intersections, there are so many ways around it.

CB: Well, and to give a more extreme example of another Taurus rising, one of my favorite examples—and this isn’t a specific example of Saturn through the 10th house—but George Lucas had Taurus rising. And at one point, he had a heavy Mars transit, so it’s a different transit than this. But he had a Mars transit, and he wanted to be a race car driver. But he was out like driving around one day, and he got in a terrible car accident. And his car spun in the air and then smashed into a tree, and then he almost died. But after that he didn’t want to be a race car driver anymore, and he decided to go to college. And there he fell in love with film-making and then made Star Wars and the Indiana Jones trilogies and everything else. So in some instances, there can be difficult things that happen, that at the time feel very heartbreaking, but ultimately, in the long term, can set you up for other opportunities that you wouldn’t have taken otherwise if you didn’t go through that difficult period.

CW: Yeah. Like the universe works in a lot of mysterious, different ways, and it’s your job to trust that. But I just think that Saturn-Jupiter and those eclipses—those are just gonna be the things that—I cannot—

CB: Signify?

CW: Signify, there we go. My brain is like already in shambles right now.

CB: Well, luckily, we are at the end of the year, and we’ve reached the end of December. Because really it’s like that eclipse and that Jupiter-Saturn ingress into Aquarius and conjunction is the final major thing of 2020.

CW: Yeah. And then we go into 2021. Well, Mars will enter Taurus, and it will still be squaring Jupiter and Saturn for a minute.

CB: No, no. You’re getting ahead of yourself because we’ve been going for an hour-and-a-half. And while I’m excited about your enthusiasm for—

CW: I’m not gonna say anything.

CB: —the horoscope for 2021, I think we’re gonna have to save this for a year from now, and we’ll have to return to do the horoscope for 2021, for Taurus rising next year.

CW: Definitely. How long did we make it? Hour-and-a-half.

CB: A cool hour-and-a-half. 90 minutes.

CW: Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.

CB: Yeah

CW: I think we’re getting a little bit closer to the goal.

CB: Well, what’s funny is that the last one was an hour, and that was a little bit too long, so we were gonna cut this one down. So we actually went longer. So at this rate, if I keep calculating this exponentially—

CW: You should be done with all of the year ahead horoscopes by next year.

CB: Well, and the Pisces rising horoscope is gonna be like six-hours-long by the time I get there, if I just keep increasing it incrementally—

CW: By 30 minutes.

CB: —30 minutes.

CW: Yeah. But it sounds like fun.

CB: All right. Well, that was fun. Thanks a lot for joining me for that.

CW: Of course. Thank you, Chris, for having me here.

CB: You have a YouTube channel where you do not just me doing my very occasional forecasts—where I do the monthly forecasts with Austin and Kelly, and then sometimes I do horoscopes like this—but you actually do like weekly forecasts.

CW: Yeah, I do a weekly horoscope. I was doing monthly horoscopes for a long time and I fell out of it, but I’m starting that back up again this year. Monthly horoscopes, weekly horoscopes to talk about Mercury retrogrades on my channel, planetary ingresses, and there’s a lot more to come on my channel this year. So follow me at White Light Astrology. It should be pretty easy to find.

CB: So just Google ‘White Light Astrology’, and they’ll find your YouTube channel and your Twitter?

CW: Yeah, WhiteLightCam is my Twitter, too. If you’re on astrology Twitter and don’t already follow me, please do.

CB: Cool. And then, as for me, I’m at TheAstrologyPodcast.com. I already pitched the posters, which you can find at TheAstrologyPodcast.com and then just go to our store. Some of those have like bonus zodiac posters. There’s a fourth poster that was thrown in with some of the early ones. I still have some of those left, if you order them in the next few days. Otherwise, just the three-pack that shows all of the artwork that we’ve been using throughout this show, so that you can just put it up on your wall and know at a glance exactly when some of these transits that we were talking about in this forecast begin and end. Let’s see, other than that, thanks to our patrons because The Astrology Podcast is supported, and the only reason I’m able to do this with some of the high-quality audio stuff that we’re able to do with the livestreaming is through the support of patrons. So shoutout in particular to patrons Christine Stone, Nate Craddock, and Tanner Robinson.

CW: Shoutout, Nate.

CB: Shoutout, Nate, who also has a new book titled—

CW: Charted Territory.

CB: Charted Territory. You can find that on Amazon.

CW: It’s really good. It’ll make you cry.

CB: It is actually a really good book. Also, thanks to patron and supporter Astro Gold Astrology App, which is what I use on my phone, at Astrogold.io.

CW: They’re your patrons?

CB: Yeah.

CW: Wow.

CB: Astro Gold is a patron, they’re a supporter, so we appreciate them, especially cuz I really like their software. Thanks, also, to the Portland School of Astrology, at PortlandAstrology.org. The Honeycomb Collective Personal Astrological Almanacs at Honeycomb.co.

CW: If you don’t have one, get one.

CB: Everyone’s got one of those.

CW: I feel like everyone got those.

CB: It does seem like everyone’s got theirs on social media. If you don’t, definitely check that out. Also, there’s two astrology conferences happening this year. One is the International Society for Astrological Research is hosting a conference in Denver that’s gonna have, I think, over 800 astrologers, is what they’re shooting for and over a hundred speakers. That’s September 10-14, 2020. More information available at ISAR2020.org. And the Northwest Astrological Conference in Seattle, from May 21-25, 2020. More information at NORWAC.net. So if you wanna become a patron and get access to bonus episodes, or early access to new episodes and other bonus content, go to Patreon.com/AstrologyPodcast. So thanks everybody who joined us tonight for the livestream. We appreciate all your comments. So I’m doing livestreams of the rising sign horoscopes. That’s two down, 10 more to go.

CW: 10 more to go.

CB: And so, I’m gonna take a little break, maybe get a coffee or some food, and then come back possibly tonight and do the horoscope, the rising sign for Gemini—if I can get it together. Cuz I’d like to get as many done today as I can. Then I’m gonna take it over and do more tomorrow, and then we’ll see how far I get through them by the end of tomorrow.

CW: Yeah, let me know, cuz I won’t be here for all of them.

CB: Okay. I’m just gonna go pass out. Good. Well, thanks everyone for watching, and we will see you again next time.

CW: See you.

GEMINI AND GEMINI RISING

CB: Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is your horoscope for the next 12 months for the year of 2020, for those with Gemini and Gemini rising. So joining me today is Leisa Schaim. Hey, Leisa.

LS: Hey, Chris.

CB: And we’re gonna be going through this tonight. We’re gonna take about, who knows how long it’ll take. 30-40 minutes is our target time.

LS: Yeah.

CB: The past two—for Aries and Taurus—have gone a little long. But I think we’re starting to get the hang of it, so we’ll try to be relatively concise. But there’s a lot of astrology coming up over the next year to cover, so we’ve got a lot to look at.

LS: Definitely.

CB: So this horoscope, you can look at it from the perspective of your Sun sign, if that is Gemini, especially if you were born during the day, or your Moon sign, if your Moon was in Gemini, especially if you were born at night. But we’re gonna focus in particular on those that have Gemini rising. So if you know your birth time, if you have a copy of your birth chart from a website like Astro.com, it’ll tell you what your rising sign is. And we’re gonna focus on Gemini because then we can use the 12 astrological houses, and that’s how we’re gonna sort of make this a little bit more concrete, by looking at the transits of the planets through the 12 houses over the course of the next year.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right, so let’s jump right into it. And thanks already. There’s Melvin who’s joining us in the livestream, thank you, and what, 13 other viewers. So let’s jump right into it.

LS: All right.

CB: All right. So first, this is from the astrology posters that we put out this year, and it shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the year and then how far through the signs of the zodiac they will get by the end of the year. So it’s kind of a cool way to visualize how some of the inner planets, like Mercury, move relatively fast versus some of the outer planets. Like Saturn or Pluto or Neptune or Uranus move relatively slowly. We’re also gonna be looking at another poster, which shows the dates when certain planets move into different signs over the course of the year, as well as when the different lunations are, like the Full Moons and New Moons, and the planetary stations. Like when Mercury stations retrograde or direct.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right. So let’s just jump into it and start with January.

LS: Sounds good. So, in January, we have a cluster of several different things happening within a few days, early-to-mid-January, around January 10-12. We have a Cancer eclipse, which is going to be in your 2nd house of finances and income. We have Saturn-Pluto exact conjunction, which happens in your 8th house of shared resources, which is the other financial house. And then we have a Uranus station happening in your 12th house of hidden things.

CB: Right. Okay, so eclipse in Cancer. And that’s a lunar eclipse.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so that brings some sort of culmination to the area of your personal finances. That’s more of the money that you bring in—your own money, your possessions—as opposed to any that you might share with a partner or anyone else. Now there has been a Cancer/Capricorn eclipse series going on for the past year already. So this isn’t a new influence exactly. It’s just sort of the newest wrinkle in the ongoing story.

CB: Right. So it’s been bouncing back and forth in that 2nd house axis of your finances versus the 8th house, which is like other people’s money, and major developments in six-month cycles of starting up new things and then eventually, six months later, then coming to sort of culmination. And right now you’re at a culmination point with respect to the 2nd house, with the solar eclipse falling in that sign. So some themes or trends that started six months ago for you, in terms of finances, are probably becoming clear now and are probably starting to manifest in noticeable ways.

LS: Mm-hmm. For sure. And the other Capricorn eclipse happened just at the end of 2019. So just before this month started. And that precedes pretty closely the Saturn-Pluto conjunction then in Capricorn, in your 8th house of shared resources or other people’s money. So there is an ongoing story with regard to both of those financial houses, your own finances/other people’s money. And other people’s money can mean any shared resources you have with a partner. Like if you’re married or in a long-term partnership and you share any resources together to pay for a house or a car or anything like that, it can be things like that. It can also be, you know, inheritance, in terms of money that’s coming to you from other people. The 8th house also has to do with all those financial topics that are not income-based. So taxes, debts, loans, mortgages, all of those things go there. So this has been an ongoing story, not just with the eclipses, for the past year or so in the 2nd and 8th houses, but also, the Saturn-Pluto transit. Saturn joined Pluto in there at the end of 2017. So this is already two years through a three-year transit.

CB: Yeah, we’re two years into this transit. With Saturn going through your 8th house of other people’s money and shared resources that can sometimes bring up challenges or the need for restructuring in that area.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: The good news is that you’re already two-thirds of the way through that transit by the time we get to this month, January of 2020. And so, most of the rest of the year, between now and December, will be just wrapping up the last third of that transit. So for some people that may have brought up some obstacles or some problems in the area of shared resources. So that can be things like tax issues or issues involving inheritance. Mortality is sometimes an issue that comes up in different ways in people’s lives when they have heavy 8th house transits.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: But other times the most common thing is like the financial things that come up, especially if you’re in a close, one-on-one partnership, either with a long-term relationship or with a business partner. Some of the challenges in that area are often like a very standard manifestation of a Saturn transit through the 8th.

LS: Yeah, for sure. So you could be dealing with like other people’s assets, you know, in terms of wills or things like that. It can also pertain to just your partner’s income itself. And sometimes a Saturn transit through the 8th or a Saturn-Pluto transit through the 8th can mean maybe your partner took a new line of work, but it’s taking a while for them to bring their income back up. Or they got laid off, or different things like that that would affect your conjoined finances.

CB: Right. So Saturn can sometimes be more of a constrictive type of influence or type of signification, you know, over the course of the past couple of years. But one of the things that’s offsetting that a little bit this year is we also have Jupiter transiting through Capricorn, which is bringing a little bit of balance to it, and a little bit more optimism, and a little bit more themes of like expansion and growth in that area.

LS: Yeah.

CB: So if either you’ve been experiencing some issues in that area, or your partner’s been experiencing issues in that area, then Jupiter transiting through that sign over the course of the next year may lighten things up a little bit, or at least bring some alleviation from some of the challenges that you may have been dealing with in that area previously.

LS: Yeah, definitely. And Jupiter in Capricorn is considered sort of a more sober influence in terms of, you know, great expansion and buoyancy and the things that we normally expect from Jupiter, but it’s still Jupiter. So while it might more moderately expand things or improve things, that still is its role. It’s, you know, going to help out the area that you’ve already been working hard on for a while.

CB: Right. All right. So that’s gonna be a major thing that we’ll keep coming back to this year, just all of the Capricorn transits, which are going through your 8th house of other people’s resources, and the occasional thing that’s going on with Cancer getting activated, which is your 2nd house of personal finances.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: But we don’t have to dwell on that too much. Why don’t we move on?

LS: So we’re mentioning Uranus?

CB: The Uranus station, okay. So Uranus is stationing in Taurus, in their 12th house.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Okay.

LS: Yeah. So sometimes that can be unexpected things. The 12th house most broadly is about things that happen behind the scenes or that take you away from everyday life. So that can either be unexpected things that happen, that you didn’t see coming. Sometimes it’s called the house of enemies. It can be a bunch of different things, that’s one of the things. So it can be people who are simply working at cross-purposes to you. It doesn’t have to be like evil enemies. Sometimes it’s also an unexpected thing that takes you out, temporarily, of everyday life. So that can be like a temporary injury or illness or something like that, because the 12th house governs things that are not in the main of everyday life.

CB: Sure. But yeah, mainly, one of the things is just unexpected disruptions from those that are working at cross-purposes to you is one of the more tangible manifestations that sometimes happen. This is a long-term transit that’s lasting for seven years.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: There’s an intensification of it in January because Uranus is gonna station at 2° of Taurus. And then we’ll have one other Uranus station later in the year at 10° of Taurus. So if you have personal planets very close to those degrees—especially 2° of the fixed signs—it could be more important for you. But otherwise, if you don’t, it may not be a major transit for you at this time.

LS: Yeah, definitely. I would agree with that. I would say one thing that’s good as well is since the 12th house can sometimes be like subconscious things or, you know, mental health issues, it’s a good time to drink like calming teas and things like that. Cuz sometimes I’ve heard people say that Uranus, when it stations in particular in their 12th, can make them feel kind of like jittery.

CB: Okay.

LS: Yeah.

CB: All right. And the last thing I wanna mention really quickly, just because Mars moves so slowly this year that sometimes its transits are more relevant. But it looks like Mars is going to be transiting through the 7th house. And it’s already moved in there at this point on January 3.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So it’s transiting through for about a month, through the 7th house of relationships, which can sometimes bring more energy to the sphere of relationships, and other times it can create some tensions in the sphere of relationships as it’s going through your 7th house of partnership.

LS: Right.

CB: So we don’t have to dwell on that. But let’s move on to the following month because that’s gonna take us into the later part of that transit.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right. So here’s February. And part of the reason why we’re moving on to February is because one of the notable shifts that happens in February is Mars moving into Capricorn on the 16th of the month.

LS: Mm-hmm. So yeah, mid-month, then Mars joins the Saturn, Jupiter, and Pluto transits in your 8th house of shared resources. So that does bring more energy and attention to that arena. You already have a lot of attention there with three planets transiting there, so it just brings one more. With both Mars and Saturn there, it can bring potential stress around that, since the Saturn transit is more challenging for people born at night, but then the Mars transit is more challenging for people born during the day. So either way, when you have both of them in one sign, there’s some, you know, potential stress there, I would say.

CB: Yeah. So there’s just this weird balance this year between, oh, we’ve got a challenging transit of Saturn going through the 8th house, so there may be some obstacles and difficulties that come up involving shared resources or other people’s money. But then, at the same time, oh, we’ve got a positive counterbalancing transit, which is Jupiter going through there this year. So that’s bringing more growth and optimism and stability. But then, temporarily, for like a month, we have Mars that joins in February, and then that brings more of a tension-type energy to that area again, especially for people with day charts. So there’s just this back-and-forth, especially in all of the cardinal signs this year—especially Capricorn, Aries, and to a lesser extent, Cancer—in terms of just some tension from these transits all going through cardinal signs.

LS: Yeah, definitely. It’s an interesting combination. Cuz it’s not really an area where—oftentimes they’re more separate during, you know, many years. And so, you can’t really say, oh, this is a positive area for you this year, or this is a challenging area for you this year, it’s probably going to be both.

CB: Right. So it’s not just Mars basically ingressing into Capricorn, but also, we have a Mercury retrograde later in the month, where it stations retrograde in Pisces.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: This is notable for those with Gemini rising because it’s actually happening in your 10th house. At least your tenth whole sign house, using whole sign houses, is Pisces. So Mercury is gonna be stationing up there in Pisces with Neptune.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: We had Mercury retrograde conjunct Neptune last year, and that was a little bit tricky because Mercury conjoining Neptune like that or making a hard aspect like that can intensify or amplify some of the miscommunication and some of the lack of clarity that sometimes is already associated with Mercury retrograde periods.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Here, because that’s happening in the 10th house, it’s happening in the sphere of your career and your overall life direction. Sometimes the 10th house can also have to deal with your boss, if you have a boss, or people that are in an authority position over you.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So it’s probably a good idea to try to strive for clearer communication during that time, starting later in February because there may be a heightened tendency to run into issues of that sort.

LS: Yeah, definitely. And just to throw it in there, we’re not really talking about Neptune too much this year because it’s not doing a lot of active things. But I still did wanna throw it in here, since we’re talking about the Mercury retrograde conjunct Neptune in the 10th house. Because, for you, with Gemini rising, Neptune’s been transiting your 10th house of career and public reputation, that’s an angular and very prominent house for you. And I know that a lot of people I’ve talked with, with Gemini rising, have a little bit of confusion going on with regard to their role in life or what they wanna be doing for work. And so, I just wanted to throw that in there, that that is kind of a little bit of nebulous influence going on if you do feel confused about any of those things right now. Even though we’re not discussing it, otherwise, a lot this year, that is something that’s very angular for you in your chart.

CB: Yeah. Just the lack of certainty and the nebulousness surrounding career and overall life direction.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And there may be some little, minor incident involving that here, with this Mercury retrograde station happening close to Neptune in your 10th house. Especially if Mercury’s activated for you through like a timing technique, like annual profections, as a time-lord that can amplify that, or if you’re in a 10th house Pisces profection year.

LS: Yeah, exactly. So I just wanna throw that in there for those of you who might be feeling that.

CB: Okay. All right. Moving on to elsewhere in February. So we have the Mercury retrograde. That starts on the 16th, right around the same time that Mars goes into—

LS: Capricorn.

CB: —Capricorn. So it’s like those two things could be related, so sort of pay attention to that. That could be unrelated. You know, we don’t know. It depends on your birth chart. The Mercury retrograde cycle is already halfway done by the 25th.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So we’re already halfway through it at that point and then things start to clear up. If there was a Mercury retrograde snafu, it can start to go away by that point. By early March, Mercury retrogrades back into Aquarius. So it goes back into your 9th house before it stations direct eventually on the 9th of March. So that’s a little bit weird. Like a Mercury retrograde that goes from the 10th house of career into the 9th house of like travel and education. Sometimes it could be like connecting those two topics and making you revisit those things in some way.

LS: Right. It could be connecting them in some way in terms of like there’s a revision in what you need to do for your career that perhaps includes some educational component that you have to go back and do or something like that. Even if it’s like a short course.

CB: Right.

LS: And other times it might be more of a temporary revisiting mentally that’s not necessarily an external thing. Like you start thinking about like, “Oh, wouldn’t it be nice to go back to school?” But then it goes back into your 10th house and then you’re like, “Eh, no, I’m good.”

CB: Yeah. Or something about revisiting. The 9th house also has to do with like beliefs. And so, something about change in beliefs that alters or has an impact on your career and your life direction.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, that could be. And we’ll probably talk about that more with the Saturn transit coming up.

CB: Good point. Because that is actually happening the same month. So this acts as sort of a precursor to that.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Cuz the next big thing after Mercury stations direct is that later in the month, Saturn ingresses into Aquarius, and that’s a major, long-term transit. And then Mars actually catches up to it just about a week later and moves into Aquarius around the same time on the 30th of March.

LS: Yeah.

CB: So let’s take the Saturn one first, cuz that’s a big one and has major long-term impact.

LS: Sure. Yeah, so Saturn’s gonna be in your 9th house for a few months, from the end of March through July 1. And that’s a little bit of a preview of the longer Saturn transit that’ll be coming up from December 2020 for a few years then. And so, this gives you just a little bit of an idea or a precursor of what kind of issues might be coming up for you. And the 9th house does have to do, like you mentioned, with beliefs. It can be your big-picture worldview, which can be religion, philosophy. Even things like political views sometimes go there. Astrology also, traditionally, goes there. Anything that kind of makes you understand how the world works or puts it in a larger framework for you is 9th house material.

CB: Right. So this is the start of a three-year-long transit. You get a little bit of an alleviation of some of the heaviness that was going on in your 8th house and some of those themes having to do with shared resources, and maybe even issues of mortality. But this is the starting point of a long, three-year transit of Saturn going through your 9th house, which could indicate some major restructurings, either with respect to educational pursuits or with respect to your belief system in your life in general.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Some people—because the 9th house is also the place of travel and foreign countries—sometimes these changes or restructurings can be precipitated by traveling to a foreign country or having some exposure to a foreign culture or foreign ways of thinking that cause you to broaden your horizons a little bit.

LS: Exactly.

CB: So I’ve seen a lot of people—I feel like with Taurus rising, where they’ve had Saturn going through their ninth whole sign house over the past few years—who have been trying to really focus on finishing like a degree in college or some sort of like higher educational program in preparation for something then—when Saturn moves into their 10th house—will give them a better shot in terms of their career. Or where they’ll finally be able to pursue the career that they want once they finish these preliminary educational things.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And I think now, for the Gemini rising people, that may be a major component for some of them, with Saturn going into and just beginning the very tip of this three-year-long transit.

LS: Yeah, definitely. I’ve seen that as well with the Taurus risings. So this will be coming up now for you all with Gemini rising. And sometimes it’s proactive, like you’re really thinking ahead, like, “I would like to do this educational course,” either just because or in order to do a career thing after that, like you just mentioned. Sometimes it’s reactive, like either feeling bad about the education that you never finished or never even started. In which case, you know, the point isn’t to feel bad about it. It’s a long transit that’s about putting effort towards a certain area. And so, the point is if you feel bad about something in that area, you’re supposed to actually focus on it and work on it, so that you feel much better about where you’re at, at the end of those few years.

CB: Yeah. And especially if it’s something where you feel like you missed something earlier in your life, maybe the last time Saturn was transiting through that house or another house that aspected it in a major way. This can be a period to return to that and to sort of do the hard work to finish something that you left off and didn’t complete previously.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely.

CB: So that can be a major thing. It’s a little tricky. So this is just the tip of it. Cuz Saturn’s just gonna dip into Aquarius for like a few months, from March until, what, like June.

LS: Yeah. July 1, yeah.

CB: And then it’s gonna retrograde back out into Capricorn to finish the last of that transit. And then eventually Saturn will come back and permanently move into Aquarius for a couple of years, in December.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So this is just a taste of what that’s gonna be about. Unfortunately, there’s a little bit of a tense start to it. It may not be like an easy start to it for everybody because Mars, as we said, moves into Aquarius within a week of that. So whether you have day chart or a night chart, like the first month of this transit or so has the potential to be a bit challenging or to have an event or a set of circumstances that sort of precipitate a challenge or a crisis that opens up the sequence of events that we’re talking about and some of the major changes in this area of your life over the next couple of years.

LS: Yeah, definitely. And it can be a specific event. It can be more just feeling a stressor around that area of your life for some reason. You know, this can also be—I’m thinking about the transits going through the 8th immediately preceding your transits through the 9th house. And sometimes that can be like a sudden crisis of faith for some reason or things like that because the 9th house has to do, again, with belief systems as well. So if it’s that for you, there will be better—there will be easier transits later, I should say, not better. And so, this is more like it might start off with a stressful thing, but it’s not gonna stay that way.

CB: Sure. And we’re talking about how it can be like beliefs. And sometimes that can be something—it doesn’t necessarily have to be religious beliefs, but even beliefs in terms of like science and things like that. We were talking about like political philosophy earlier, and you were saying that seems to be like a 9th house thing sometimes.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Anything that just is sort of like a big-picture worldview for you, however that shows up. And that can be in all of those realms because it’s basically how we understand the world around us and what’s our framework for that. And we all have some sort of framework, even if we don’t realize that we do.

CB: Definitely. And just looking at some of the comments in the livestream, I wanted to say thank you and give a shoutout to ‘Arceus A’ who gave a donation in the livestream chat. So that’s Austin. That’s our first one for this little livestream.

LS: Thank you.

CB: Thanks for showing your appreciation. There’s like a little cash button by the chatbox if anybody else wants to do that as well, but thank you. All right. So I think that’s kind of March, right?

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: That’s the big stuff. Mercury stations direct, and then we get Saturn and Mars moving into Aquarius. So that takes us pretty quickly over into April. In April, we have the Jupiter-Pluto conjunction happening in Capricorn. Those, at that point, are the only two outer planets that are in that sign.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So it could indicate some positive developments of growth and rapid expansion that are happening in the area of shared resources in a positive way.

LS: Yeah, definitely. And, you know, the 8th house is other people’s money or shared resources. But when you think about it in a more positive way, or some of the manifestations that can be more purely positive, you know, not everyone’s gonna be in this position but it can be things like investors. It can be business partner money. It can be loans. It can be scholarships. Those kinds of things that aren’t direct income, basically.

CB: Mm-hmm.

LS: So those are some of the kinds of things. And, you know, with Pluto there, it’s not just Jupiter. Jupiter’s like opportunities for expansion or opportunities that you don’t usually get otherwise. It’s good things coming to you, basically. Although, in Capricorn, you probably still need to work for it. It’s probably not just like, “Here.” But with Jupiter and Pluto there, the purpose of the opportunity is for like a longer-term transformation in your life in some way.

CB: Sure. Right. Other than that, though, we have Pluto stationing in Capricorn, but that’s mainly just like inner planet transits for the rest of the month and nothing super-notable.

LS: Yeah, that’s true.

CB: Okay. Let’s jump forward and keep this going then into May.

LS: Okay.

CB: Let’s see. We’ve got Saturn stationing in Aquarius. So there’s an intensification of that Saturn transit in the 9th house. And aside from the ingress of Saturn, when it first moved into that sign, you know, back in March, this is gonna be the time—especially if you have planets in early degrees of fixed signs—where you’re gonna see the first development or the first event that can key off or sort of kick off some of the major events that you’ll experience in that Saturn transit through your 9th house over the next few years, just cuz planetary stations—when a planet stations retrograde or direct—can tend to be an intensification of whatever it is that that transit signifies.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely.

CB: All right. So that’s happening. We’ve also got both of the benefics. Like Mars gets out of Aries.

LS: Mars leaves Aquarius. So Mars moves into Pisces, your tenth whole sign house of career and public reputation.

CB: Yeah, which is a little bit weird because that’s around the same time that Venus stations retrograde, the same day, around the 13th of May, in Gemini, in their rising sign, in the 1st house.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And then Jupiter stations retrograde in Capricorn, back in their 8th house. But maybe we should talk about, first, the Mars transit going through their 10th.

LS: Sure. So Mars is just gonna bring a lot more activity, potentially self-assertion, potential conflict as well, through the 10th house of career. That can be interactions with your supervisors, if you have a boss. So that can be a time where there’s, you know, more friction or something like that. In a positive sense, it can sometimes be you putting a lot more effort towards something in the career realm, whether that’s like finding a new job or just working really hard at some short-term goal with regard to career or something like that. So basically Mars can be both energy and conflict.

CB: Yeah. So be careful. Sometimes there can be a severing energy with Mars and the need to separate from things. So sometimes that can be proactive, where a person feels like they’re done and they need to separate themselves from some job or some career that they’ve been focusing on for a long time. Other times you need to be careful that it’s not like an external thing, where you get fired from a job, or you do something wrong or something impetuous that causes you to get severed from your job itself.

LS: Yeah, definitely. And also, keep in mind it’s a short-term transit. It’s, you know, just as six-week transit, normally, of Mars through each sign, so it’s not really a major area. So sometimes it’s like if you know that that’s gonna be temporary, and you’re feeling more fired up for some reason, it’s like, well, you know, maybe try to hold your horses a little bit and like put energy where it needs to go in the career arena, but don’t get into like needless fights or something. Because unless there are very specific things going on in your particular birth chart that say otherwise, it’s not really like saying, you know, it’s a long-term change for you, for instance.

CB: Right. So the one that is more notable, though, is that Venus retrograde station because it is happening in Gemini, in their rising sign.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So what are some good keywords for like a Venus retrograde? The 1st house tends to represent both the body and the physical constitution of the native, as well as their appearance, as well as their mind and their character traits. So having a Venus retrograde in your 1st house can sometimes be like a change in your appearance, or even doing something as simple as like a makeover or like changing your appearance. Like getting a new hairstyle, like I tend to do frequently.

LS: Yeah.

CB: I’m thinking about doing that.

LS: Okay.

CB: Maybe you should get a new—you could join—hairstyle.

LS: Maybe. We’ll see.

CB: Maybe?

LS: Yeah.

CB: I could be your stylist.

LS: Sounds good.

CB: That would be Venus retrograde.

LS: That would definitely be Venus retrograde because—we should explain why. Cuz sometimes Venus retrograde—I remember this was on some other podcast, actually, it’s occurring to me now.

CB: Oh, this was debated?

LS: Yes.

CB: Yeah.

LS: Yeah. So whether you should actually do a revision of your appearance during Venus retrograde versus just contemplate that revision at that time and wait until Venus goes direct to actually do it.

CB: I think I voted in favor of doing a makeover, changing your appearance is fine, if it’s a Venus retrograde. Especially if it’s hitting something prominent in your chart, like your ascendant or your 1st house.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Whereas I think you were trying to urge more caution in that area.

LS: I can’t remember when the discussion was or if someone else was involved, but I do generally think that you wait more and do it when it’s direct. Because the thing about Venus retrograde is it is a good time to revision things like that, or, you know, revisit, think through again, you know, that kind of thing. But sometimes, because the energy is going retrograde, and it’s not moving direct in a sort of straightforward fashion as it normally does, your ideas aren’t fully formed yet. Or they might be a little bit more weird compared to what you might feel once it goes direct again.

CB: Sure. So it can be a period of experimentation, let’s say, which might open around the middle of May. And then the Venus retrograde period ends by the end of June. Around June 25.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So you’re saying if it stations direct on the 25th, let’s say, then is it okay at that point to move forward? You would fully endorse the makeover at that point?

LS: Well, I would say after a few more days, once it starts moving direct.

CB: Okay. But anyway, because it’s going through your 1st house that has to do with redoing or rethinking the aesthetics of like your appearance or your body, or anything related to that will probably tend to be more typical of that sort of transit.

LS: Yeah, definitely. And in terms of the general significations of Venus retrogrades, they’re often talked about in terms of reviewing or revisiting old relationships and, you know, old connections. Because Venus is about the things that connect us together and are unifying. And so, even though it’s in your 1st house and not, say, like your 7th house of partnership or something like that, I still think that that can be a time—since the 1st house is so primary to you—where the Venus retrograde, even in its general significations, may affect you more than the next person.

CB: Sure. So a good way sometimes to see how that’ll affect you, or if it will, is to go back in eight-year increments, cuz Venus retrogrades happen in the same spot in the zodiac every eight years. So if you go back eight years to, what, 2012, that was the last time Venus was retrograde in Gemini.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: If you go back eight years before that, that was, again, a Venus retrograde in Gemini and so on and so forth, depending on how old you are and how far you wanna go back in your chronology.

LS: Right.

CB: So yeah, rethinking old relationships or sometimes revisiting them is a common theme.

LS: Mm-hmm. Exes showing up.

CB: Sure.

LS: Yeah.

CB: All right. So was there anything? I think there’s something we’re forgetting besides the Venus retrograde that was happening in May.

LS: Jupiter’s station right next to it. It’s not really a huge deal, though.

CB: Yeah. I mean, it’s still just emphasizing the 8th house stuff that we’ve already talked about ad nauseam, but intensifying some of it because it’s stationing there. Then once we get into June, the halfway point through the Venus retrograde cycle is the 3rd, when it conjoins the Sun.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And then right after that we get an eclipse in Sagittarius on June 5.

LS: Mm-hmm. So this will be the first eclipse in Sagittarius. So we’ve been in this Cancer/Capricorn eclipse series for the past year or so, and we’re finishing that up this year, and we’ll have those at the end of the year, the Sagittarius/Gemini in full. But this is kind of the first one that leads it off.

CB: And look at that. It’s occurring in the 7th house of relationships—

LS: That’s true.

CB: —for the Gemini rising people, right in the middle of the Venus retrograde.

LS: Yeah, that’s pretty significant. So that kind of doubles-up, you know, what I was just saying about relationship movement, about the Venus retrograde potentially being more important for you, and so forth.

CB: Yeah.

LS: Cuz eclipses bring beginnings and endings and movement in the houses that they touch.

CB: Yeah. My keywords are always that they’re great beginnings and great endings. So sometimes like one relationship will end and another major one will begin.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: But this is starting off a whole series of eclipses that are gonna be occurring in your 1st and 7th houses. So the 1st house of self and the 7th house of others or house of relationships, and that’s gonna be bouncing back and forth, activating those two houses in six-month increments after this point for the next, what, year-and-a-half.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Okay. Yeah, so major changes in the sphere of relationships, as well as changes in the sphere of self that are kicked off by the Venus retrograde.

LS: Yeah, definitely. And it’s interesting the Venus retrograde is kind of preceding that eclipse series, even though you don’t get the Gemini one until the end of the year, because it is bringing up the same themes that you’ll start, you know, continuing to revisit with self and other.

CB: Yeah. So it might mean that the theme at this point—cuz eclipses, although sometimes they start to manifest in events right away, after the eclipse, they really have a six-month time window that it opens up at that point. But the theme of starting with a lunar eclipse is sort of like an ending or a culmination of something with respect to relationships in June, that plays out over the course of the next six months. And then at the very end of the year, we’ll get a New Moon in Sagittarius, which is a solar eclipse. And that’ll be more of a beginning phase for relationships or a new chapter starting rather than an old one ending.

LS: For sure. And lest we scare people, it doesn’t always have to be like a new relationship or an ending of a relationship. Sometimes it can simply be, you know, a culminating chapter of a relationship. Like becoming engaged or something like that. So I just wanna kind of put that out there for clarity’s sake.

CB: Yeah, the end of chapter and the beginning of another. And sometimes it can just be developments that are happening, if you’re already in a relationship, in your partner’s life.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Like they get an important job promotion or something like that. Something significant with somebody who’s connected with you. Even if it’s not you, yourself, directly, it’s showing up in your chart, cuz it may have some indirect impact on your life.

LS: Yeah, definitely.

CB: Yeah. All right. So that is the eclipse that’s happening right at the very beginning of the month, on the 5th.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Then we have our second Mercury retrograde of the year, which begins—it’s a three-week period that begins on the 18th of June, when Mercury stations retrograde in Cancer.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Cancer, as we talked about earlier, is the 2nd house for those with Gemini rising. So it’s the place that has to do with finances, possessions, income, and resources and things like that.

LS: Yeah. So there’s another activation happening here with both the Mercury retrograde happening in Cancer, which both retrogrades in Cancer and stations direct in Cancer. So the whole retrograde is in Cancer, in your 2nd house of income. There’s also going to be an eclipse there in your 2nd house of income as well.

CB: Literally like two or three days later.

LS: Yeah. So there’s a lot of activation right there in your income house again. Income and assets.

CB: Suddenly the second part of June, the second half of June, into the beginning of July, becomes more financially-focused.

LS: Mm-hmm. And that’s interesting. I mean, I don’t think we’ve been throwing this piece in, but again, since, you know, the Neptune transit is angular for Gemini rising people, I’m seeing that Neptune does station a couple of days after that eclipse in the 10th house of career. So it may have something to do with some sort of career movement, either smaller or larger, with regard to your income. And again, that doesn’t always have to be bad. I mean, for some people, it could be ending a job. But for some other people, it could be like a promotion and a raise.

CB: Right. Definitely.

LS: Yeah.

CB: So that’s interesting. And then, finally, by the end of the month, we have the completion and the finishing of the Venus retrograde, which stations direct on the 25th of June.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And that’s basically the first half of the month. The Mercury retrograde is already halfway through, and we get the Sun-Mercury cazimi on the 30th, and then we turn to July.

LS: So right before that Mars enters Aries, we should probably mention.

CB: Okay, yeah. That is a major thing because Mars is slowing down at this point, and it’s getting ready to station retrograde. So while, normally, a Mars transit through Aries would be like a really quick, one-month affair, this turns into like this whole, several-month debacle because Mars slows down and stations retrograde in that sign.

LS: Yeah. So Mars is gonna spend about six months in Aries, in your 11th house of friends and groups, whereas, normally, a Mars transit through there would just be a quick six weeks, a month-and-a-half there. So it’s gonna be this extended period of putting a martial kind of energy towards your friends and groups area and larger networks of people that you’re associated with. So sometimes that can be just that you suddenly have a need to put more energy in that area. Sometimes it’s more like conflict developing between you and friends. I can easily see—not that this is gonna fit everyone of course. But with it being the larger networks of people—even people who aren’t close to you—that can even be things like activism. You know, putting energy towards the social sphere.

CB: Yeah. Having to like roll up your sleeves and like put more work on a group project or a group effort over an extended period of time.

LS: Yeah.

CB: But sometimes that being something that involves the expenditure of a lot of energy in the area of friends or groups, in the best-case scenario. And sometimes, in the less best-case scenario, there are sometimes like tensions that evolve out of that or conflict or strife, or even sometimes like a separation with a friend that’s notable during this time.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So the window opens this month, at the very end of June, but it doesn’t get—doesn’t intensify fully until Mercury—until Mars stations retrograde in September.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: And that’s really more of the time that we would focus on for when we would expect an event surrounding this transit. Although, certainly, the window opens as soon as Mars goes into Aries at the end of June.

LS: Yeah, the themes will begin here. It might not be the intensification yet.

CB: Right. All right. So let’s move on to the second half of the year. We’re doing pretty well. We’re like 30-40—no. Not that long.

LS: That’s not good. Okay, July.

CB: Okay. Just checking out the livestream chat really quickly. Shoutout and thanks to Rachel Favalaro. Is that how you pronounce that?

LS: I’m not sure.

CB: Okay. How would you pronounce it?

LS: Yeah, Favalaro. Something like that.

CB: Well, thank you for making a donation in the livestream. We appreciate it.

LS: Yes, thank you.

CB: Help us keep going tonight, late into the night. It’s like eleven o’clock at night we’re recording this.

LS: Mm-hmm. Get some coffee.

CB: Having fun.

LS: Yeah.

CB: All right. So let’s jump into the second half of the year.

LS: All right. So July.

CB: July. July starts out with some major Capricorn activity right at the start, in the first half.

LS: Yeah. So July 1 is the date that Saturn ingresses back into Capricorn. And this’ll be the last time it moves back into Capricorn, in your 8th house of the shared resources/finances area for the rest of its visit there. And so, while you might have had some alleviation of that kind of hard work and effort, or whatever that has meant to you so far—as it’s transited your 8th house—once it moves into your 9th house for a few months, now it’s moved back into your 8th house. So there may be a feeling of, “Oh, I thought I was done working on that, but now I have to finish it up.”

CB: Yeah. It’s returning to sort of make sure you got the point and got whatever the lesson is of that transit over the past two-and-a-half-years, ever since Saturn first went into Capricorn in December of 2017.

LS: Mm-hmm. And it may be a lesson for you. It may also just be like literally finishing something up.

CB: Right. Bringing it to completion a sequence or a series of events that’s been happening over the past almost three years now.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So it’s not just Capricorn—Saturn returning back to that sign—but weirdly, we get an eclipse there at the same time in Capricorn. A lunar eclipse.

LS: Mm-hmm. And this’ll be the last one, actually.

CB: It’s the lunar eclipse in Capricorn. So this has been happening for a year-and-a-half now.

LS: Mm-hmm. So if there has been a lot of change or movement in the area of your finances or joint finances or both, you know, just have faith. Especially if it has been more challenging ones, this is starting to be the tail-end of all of that. So this’ll be the last of the eclipses there, and then Saturn will be done by the end of the year.

CB: And that really just echoes what we were just saying from a different perspective because a lunar eclipse is like a culmination or a completion of events. And so, it’s happening in Capricorn. So it’s just echoing Saturn returning back to that sign and the idea of bringing something to completion.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So this begins the final stretch of that, which is the six-month phase between—five-or-six-month-phase between July and December where we’re finishing out the eclipse series in Capricorn and we’re finishing out Saturn transiting through Capricorn.

LS: Mm-hmm. This is the home stretch for Saturn.

CB: Right. All right. Elsewhere in July, we have Mercury stationing direct, eventually, in the 2nd house. So that sort of completes that and rounds out that Mercury retrograde transit through the 2nd and some of the financial stuff associated with it.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Did we decide whether the Cancer eclipse was a real eclipse, on the 20th of July?

LS: Is that the second? Are there two New Moons in Cancer?

CB: Yeah. I guess we’ve just got—

LS: Cuz I think the eclipse is at 0 Cancer.

CB: Maybe it was just the previous one, okay, in June.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So this is not an eclipse. This is just a second lunation.

LS: Yeah. Which isn’t nothing, given how much activity there is temporarily here in your 2nd house.

CB: Yeah. And with Mercury stationing direct there.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Okay. But I guess that pretty much wraps it up then for July in terms of the major outer planet activity.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Cool. So moving into August, August, the primary thing that stands out is just Uranus stationing retrograde at 10° of Taurus. So it gets even deeper into Taurus or even further into Taurus before it stations and then starts moving back towards the early degrees again.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so this is gonna be stationing between 10° and 11° of Taurus this time. This is the second of the two stations this year, January and August. And so, it just intensifies that energy again, especially if you have any planets, any placements, around 10°-11° of the fixed signs. You know, again, it’s happening in your 12th house of hidden things. So these may be things that surprise you at that time, that kind of come out of left field. You know, it can be—you know, I wanna say, also, in a positive way, it can be like sudden epiphanies or sudden startling ideas.

CB: Mm-hmm.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Yeah. I mean, Uranus, also going through the 12th, the 12th sometimes has to do with endings and having an unexpected ending or wrapping a cycle in one’s life over the next several years before, eventually, Uranus moves through the 1st and like begins a new cycle through the 12 houses. And there’s like an emergence into a much larger, 84-year cycle in one’s life.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So sometimes it can just be unexpected, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be a negative thing in terms of endings. Sometimes it can liberate you from something that was holding you back in some sense. And sometimes that can be an external thing, but other times it can even be an internal thing of, what are the ways in which you might be holding yourself back or undermining yourself in different ways? And if you were suddenly given a unique perspective on that and realized the ways in which you were undermining yourself, would you be able to break free of that and liberate yourself from yourself?

LS: Yeah, for sure. And, I mean, not everyone does this, but just to tack onto the end of what you just said, you know, anyone who does any sort of like metaphysical/experiential things—like meditations and things like that—it can be epiphanies from that kind of work. You know, people who do like holotropic breathwork or things that are supposed to be kind of like shocking you out of your usual thought process.

CB: Sure.

LS: Yeah.

CB: All right. And that’s really the main thing in August. There’s, of course, as always, normal lunations, like a Full Moon in Aquarius and a New Moon in Leo, and Mercury and Venus transits, but nothing that we need to dwell on here for a full, bird’s eye view forecast.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: In September, we get the buildup that’s been building up for like a month or two at this point that finally culminates when Mars stations retrograde on the 9th of September in Aries.

LS: Yeah. So the things that we were talking about in terms of the themes of action or assertion or potential friction in the realm of friends, groups, and the larger social sphere, this is when that will probably start to become more apparent, when it stations retrograde.

CB: Mm-hmm.

LS: So retrograde actions also are things where you need to revisit something. And oftentimes, with Mars retrogrades, people feel frustrated because Mars energy, in particular, really does wanna go forward. It wants to keep moving. And so, when it retrogrades, it’s like ‘a two steps forwards, one step back’ kind of action where you thought things were moving forward in a certain area or what you were working on in that area, and then they hit some sort of snag and it takes longer than you’re expecting.

CB: Yeah. So themes of like frustration or wanting to move forward, but needing to make a U-turn and return back to something, especially if it was something that involved a lot of work or effort, or something that involved conflict within the context of a group or within the context of your friends. And needing to deal with it head on in sort of a direct way, or even in some instances, in a forceful manner, may be necessary during that time, even if it’s frustrating or challenging.

LS: Yeah, definitely. And it may cause you to have to like rework your plan—whatever’s going on in that area for you—to change tactics or to change. You know, it’s hard to talk without the specifics of what each person will be encountering, but basically, you might need to change your plans, or you might need a delay in your plans or all sorts of things like that.

CB: Sure.

LS: It’s a rerouting.

CB: So that’s kind of the—I don’t wanna say the culmination of it, but certainly the key, most pivotal point, or one of the two very pivotal points in that cycle, which is when Mars stations retrograde. And then it’ll eventually station direct several weeks later, which we’ll get to in a bit.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Also happening that month, we have Jupiter stationing direct in Capricorn.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So that’s its final station in Capricorn. And we also have Saturn’s final station in Capricorn. So again, I feel like we’re having these themes of like the final countdown and the final turning points of wrapping up a lot of these major Capricorn transits that have been happening in the 8th house—for those with Gemini rising—over the past few years, putting the finishing touches on whatever you need to do in that area of your life, which has to do with shared resources, issues surrounding mortality or inheritance, and other things like that.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: But then sort of pushing forward and moving forward to wrap and clear that up over the course of the next few months before December.

LS: Yeah, I would definitely agree with that.

CB: All right. So then Pluto stations at the beginning of October, which just emphasizes, or reemphasizes the same things, same themes.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: In the second-ish week of October, around the 13th, we have Mercury stationing retrograde in Scorpio. But then it basically retrogrades back to the previous sign, to Libra, before stationing direct in early November.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so the Mercury retrograde in Scorpio happens in your 6th house of daily work and health. And so, it can be some sort of revisiting or reconfiguring something with regard to work. But the 6th compared to the 10th house—the 10th house is more of your career. The 6th house is more of your daily work, your job, your daily routines and that sort of thing. So it’s not a major transit. You know, Mercury retrogrades happen three or four times a year, but nonetheless, it may be a temporary revisioning of that.

CB: Yeah. So the things that come up could be your health or needing to revisit something that you thought was settled about your health but needs to be looked at again. Your daily routines. If you own a business, it can have to do with either your work or especially people that work for you, like employees and having to like renegotiate a contract with one of them or things like that. Sometimes miscommunications involving them are typical.

LS: Mm-hmm. And co-workers as well go there.

CB: Sure.

LS: Yeah.

CB: So it does retrograde back and eventually goes back into Libra, which is the 5th house, before stationing direct there, though.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so the 5th house has to do with things like children, sexuality, creative expression, things you do for fun in general.

CB: Sure.

LS: Yeah. So the retrograde touching back into the 5th house, that’s not really its main activity, but it could bring up something as far as that revisiting process that suddenly involves at least one of those topics.

CB: Yeah, like children especially. Then it eventually stations direct in the 3rd house—or, sorry, stations direct on the 3rd of November in Libra, in the 5th house.

LS: Yeah.

CB: This takes us into November where eventually we have Mars’ long-awaited direct station on the 13th of November.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So that’s the second, most pivotal point in the Mercury retrograde—or the Mars retrograde cycle when it finally starts moving forward again.

LS: Yeah. So from September 9 until the middle of November, there is this redoing-and-revisiting energy in terms of your effort. It’s not so much the communications that we’re used to with the Mercury retrogrades, but revisiting your efforts with the Mars retrograde. And so, any frustrations or conflicts or anything like that, that have come up in your social sphere—whether that’s with particular friends or with a larger group you belong to—that can kind of come to a head at this point. But also, it’s good in many ways, even if it does do that because you can try to figure out how to move forward from this point.

CB: Right. So like a rectification, or beginning to rectify and beginning to resolve, maybe, issues that were coming up previously, especially during the earlier phases of the retrograde.

LS: Mm-hmm. Definitely.

CB: Okay. So that’s happening in mid-October, around the 13th.

LS: November.

CB: Sorry, November. Then we get another eclipse, which happens at the very end of the month in Gemini.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So that is in the 1st house.

LS: Yeah. So the eclipse in Gemini does have to do, again, with this whole series that’s starting up about beginnings and endings with regard to either your body or mind, or how you present yourself, your appearance, your aesthetics, even your clothing. It sometimes sounds superficial when you say things like that, but it’s not really. Because how you present yourself—even down to aesthetic, you know, decisions—has to do with your sense of self, who you think you are and how you’re trying to come across to other people in the world.

CB: Right. And who am I versus how do I relate to other people? And how does the way that I conceptualize myself—how does that alter the way that I relate to other people?

LS: Mm-hmm. And I’m gonna bring up just that Neptune station again, even though we haven’t in every sign, because it’s so close to that eclipse, and it’s in an angular house for Gemini rising.

CB: Okay.

LS: So that Neptune station also happens near the end of November, just a couple of days before the Gemini eclipse in your 1st house. And that Neptune station does happen in your 10th house of career. This is a long transit. It goes for about 14 years. So it’s not super-notable except for when it’s temporarily intensified, which it does when there’s a station. So any of those feelings that people might be having regarding ‘what is my place in the world’, you know, ‘what do I really wanna be doing for work’, those kind of feelings or even tenuousness around like your job, you know, could intensify anytime Neptune stations for you.

CB: Sure.

LS: But this, you know, happening within a few days of that eclipse in your 1st house may be notable in terms of maybe you’re gonna present yourself differently cuz you just got a promotion or something like that.

CB: Yeah. They could be related, especially to the extent that the 1st house is like how you look or how you appear, and the 10th house is like your reputation.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: Yeah, those could be interconnected.

LS: Yeah.

CB: All right. This brings us into the home stretch and one of the most pivotal months in the year, which is December, because there’s three major things that happen. The first is we get the second eclipse of this part of the year, of eclipse season, at this point—which is November and December this year—and that is a solar eclipse that’s happening in Sagittarius, in your seventh whole sign house of relationships and partnership. So some sort of new beginning or a new foundation gets laid at this point, that’s gonna grow sort of like a seed in this part of your life, and grow and develop into basically a small plant over the course of the next six months.

LS: I like that analogy.

CB: You’re laughing at my ‘plant’ analogy?

LS: It’s cute.

CB: Okay. Yeah. Well, hopefully, it’s a very beautiful plant, but we don’t know. It’s gonna actually depend. There’s different types of plants that you could plant in your 7th house of relationships. Like it could be like a beautiful—

LS: Like a lilac or something.

CB: Yeah. Or what’s the perennial that like comes up once a year that’s popular?

LS: I’m sorry. I’m not a very good ‘plant’ person.

CB: You’re not a ‘flower’ person? All right.

LS: No.

CB: I need a ‘flower’ person in the livestream. But, you know, it’s a flower versus like a cactus. But if you end up with a cactus in your 7th house, it’s kind of prickly and causes you problems if you trip over it during the night.

LS: We don’t want that.

CB: This is too abstract for a 7th house discussion?

LS: No, it’s great. It’s just making me laugh too much.

CB: Right. So a new, major beginning in the sphere of relationships with this eclipse happening in December, and that seems pretty notable.

LS: Yeah, definitely. There’s usually some sort of movement with regard to partnership when there are eclipses happening across one’s 1st/7th house axis.

CB: Right.

LS: And it’s one of the factors I often take into account—if people aren’t partnered—not as like a definite you’ll meet someone, but definitely like one of the possible things to add to a pile of indicators.

CB: Sure. So that’s actually, though, not the most notable thing that happens. The most notable thing that happens in December is Saturn finally completes its three-year transit through Capricorn, that it began in December of 2017, and it moves into Aquarius permanently.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: So into the ninth whole sign house for those with Gemini rising. And two days later, Jupiter does the same thing. It also moves into Aquarius. And then both of those planets meet up and conjoin and form a pretty rare conjunction that only occurs every 20 years between those two planets, and it happens right at the beginning of Aquarius on the 21st of December.

LS: Mm-hmm. Right. So this is a much-awaited transit—pair of transits and conjunctions for people following astrology, and it kind of revisits the energy that we had in the spring with Mars and Saturn going into Aquarius for a few months. But this is gonna be a much nicer energy because Mars isn’t gonna be there. And so, you know, it’s gonna bring up some of the same topical themes in terms of your 9th house matters, whether that’s gonna be education for you, your belief systems, study or travel or things like that. So Saturn’s moving back in there to say, “Yeah, you need to focus on this and put effort towards this,” for some reason or another for the next few years. But Jupiter simultaneously, or nearly simultaneously, is moving in there as well, giving you immediate help with that.

CB: Yeah. An immediate sense of like growth and optimism and like, “I can do this,” especially for the people with day charts.

LS: Yeah.

CB: So there was a preview of this earlier in the year, like you said, between March and June, basically, when Saturn first dipped into that sign. But now it’s finally coming back for the full run through that sign that’s gonna last for at least a couple of years.

LS: Right.

CB: When does it leave Aquarius? Do you remember?

LS: I wanna say let me double-check, but I think it’s March 2023.

CB: Okay. Pull out your trusty ephemeris.

LS: I will.

CB: Yeah. So all of the themes that we talked about before with Saturn going through there and restructuring when it comes to beliefs or education or your exposure to that which is foreign to you—whether that’s a foreign culture or a foreign belief system or what have you—and the way that can expand and sort of enrich your own life. But it just gets amped up and it gets improved even more by Jupiter joining Saturn at that time for an entire—for the entire first year of that transit.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah. And Saturn does last through March 2023 in Aquarius. So that’s the endpoint of that transit, so you’ve got a while.

CB: Yeah.

LS: And in terms of, you know, the 20-year cycle of Jupiter and Saturn, it’s hard to kind of watch that, especially when there are so many overlapping cycles in astrology going on, you know, with respect to your chart. But, you know, at least in theory, this really is supposed to be like a new 20-year beginning, even though you’ll probably notice it more when the transits are actually happening there for a year or three years respectively.

CB: Sure. Yeah, so pay attention to that just because being able to focus on the conjunction that occurs on the 21st could coincide with a major opening of a sequence of events that’s not all gonna happen at once, but at least it’s gonna open a door to something that will grow and develop in phases over the course of the next year as Jupiter goes through that sign, and then especially the next two years as Saturn makes its way through your 2nd house—or through your 9th house in preparation for Saturn eventually reaching the highest point of your chart in the 10th house. And then something that you began 10 years ago—when Saturn was transiting through your 4th house, at the very bottom of your chart—in laying a new foundation of your life eventually comes to culmination when Saturn goes through your 10th, starting in 2023, or whenever you said that was.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, spring of 2023. And I’m actually really excited for Gemini rising people in particular because there’s all these kinds of heavy Capricorn transits happening in your 8th house. And then that opens up at the end of the year into this, you know, kind of bigger opening in your 9th house of expansion.

CB: Yeah. It’s much lighter and much more optimistic and more forward-thinking.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Sometimes 8th house transits can be very heavy and can be very reflective and sometimes very tough. But this is much more forward-thinking rather than backward-looking.

LS: Definitely. I mean, 8th house transits can be tough, so can Capricorn. So, you know, the upshot is if you’re feeling any heaviness this year—which you may well be with all of these, you know, Capricorn 8th house transits—you have this kind of bright light to look forward to you at the end of the year, in December, when everything, you know, enters Aquarius and your 9th house, and you can kind of like move out into the light a little bit more, instead of like the darkness.

CB: Yeah. And to follow up on a previous analogy, Melinda St. Claire is bailing me out here, and she’s saying tulips or daffodils. The flower I was thinking of was tulips.

LS: Oh, I like tulips.

CB: Yeah. So it’s a matter of—that eclipse in December—are you planting like tulips in your 7th house of relationships, or are you planting a cactus? Or what is that flower that bloomed at the garden in Denver like a few years ago, like once in a century? Like a smelly flower?

LS: Yeah, I forget the name. But it’s like the ‘corpse flower’ flower, that’s the nickname.

CB: Okay.

LS: Yeah.

CB: Try not to plant any corpse flowers in your relationship sector during that eclipse if you can avoid it.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right. I think that’s it because the Jupiter-Saturn ingress into Aquarius is the final, major thing at the very end of this year, and that brings us to the end of our forecast for 2020.

LS: Mm-hmm.

CB: All right, we did it. Thanks for joining me for this.

LS: Yeah, you’re welcome.

CB: So where can people find out more information about you?

LS: I am at LeisaSchaim.com, and I do consultations and have a bunch of different topical lectures there and so forth.

CB: And you and I recently just released a 12-month ahead electional forecast where we picked out one lucky day for each of the next 12 months, where people can start a new venture or undertaking using the principles of electional astrology, and released that as a whole video report, like this one.

LS: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so if you’d like to use astrology more proactively, that’s what this is for, especially if you wanna look further ahead in the year and plan something ahead of time. So basically, we’ve just looked over the entirety of 2020 for you and found the best dates and times to start new things, to have better chances of success.

CB: Yeah. So that’s available at ChrisBrennanAstrologer.com/2020Elections. Other than that, we’ve been using artwork from our posters this year, The Astrology Podcast Annual 2020 Astrology Calendar Poster Bundle, which has the Planetary Alignments Calendar, which shows the specific dates when different planets move into different signs, when the lunations and eclipses take place, retrograde stations, and everything else. So basically, you can see all of the stuff we’ve just been talking about at a glance and know exactly when certain transits are starting or ending. So you can find out more information about that at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2020Posters. Other than that, this whole thing, The Astrology Podcast, the only reason I’m able to do it, we’re able to do it with some of this technology and stuff over the past few years is due to patrons of the show who support us through our page on Patreon.com. So thanks, in particular, to patrons Christine Stone, Nate Craddock, and Tanner Robinson, as well as the Astro Gold Astrology App, available at Astrogold.io, the Portland School of Astrology, at PortlandAstrology.org, the Honeycomb Collective Personal Astrological Almanacs, at Honeycomb.co. And there’s also two astrology conferences, major astrology conferences, happening this year in 2020. The first one is hosted by the International Society for Astrological Research, and it’s having a conference in Denver, Colorado from September 10-14, 2020. You can find out more information at ISAR2020.org. And the Northwest Astrological Conference in Seattle, Washington happening May 21-25, 2020, more information about that at NORWAC.net. So thanks to all the patrons. You can find out more information about becoming a patron at Patreon.com/TheAstrologyPodcast. And I think that is it. So thanks to everybody who watched us in the livestream live tonight. I’m gonna keep pushing my way through. I honestly don’t know. I might do like one more, if I can, tonight, and then pick it up again tomorrow. So thanks to everybody who commented and left questions and everything in the livestream chat. We’ll take a little break and then maybe be back with another one here again soon.

LS: Sounds good. Thanks for listening, everyone.

CB: Good luck in 2020.

CANCER AND CANCER RISING

CB: Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is your horoscope for Cancer and Cancer rising for the entire year ahead of 2020. All right. I’m doing a solo show for this one. The last few horoscopes I had either Cam White or Leisa Schaim joining me. But they’re kind of worn out, so I’m gonna do this on my own for tonight. I was having some technical difficulties earlier, otherwise, I would have started this livestream a few hours ago. But let’s jump right into it and see how many horoscopes I can get through tonight. All right, so preliminaries. So first thing first, these are rising sign horoscopes. So you can either look at this from the perspective of your Sun sign, if your Sun was in the zodiac sign of Cancer when you were born, especially if you were born during the day, or if your Moon was located in Cancer, especially if you were born at night. But I recommend especially looking at these horoscopes from the perspective of your rising sign because that allows us to use the 12 houses. And that’s something I’m gonna be focusing on a lot—giving you a sort of big-picture overview of the astrology of the next 12 months, especially based on where the outer planets are transiting through the 12 houses and the 12 different sectors of your chart that represent different parts of your life.

So, hey, everybody. Thanks for joining me in the livestream. We’re back again tonight. So let’s jump right into it. All right. So we’re gonna be looking at a couple of things. One of the things we’re gonna look at is the Planetary Movements Chart and Calendar, which is from a poster I just published this year, and it shows where the planets start in the signs of the zodiac at the beginning of the year and how far through the signs of the zodiac they will get by the end of the year. So some of the planets are really quick, like the inner planets, like Mercury or Venus, whereas there’s other planets that move very slowly, like the outer planets Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, which will largely just go through one or maybe two signs during the course of a year. We’re also gonna be looking at the Planetary Movements Calendar, or Planetary Alignments Calendar, that shows the ingresses, when planets move into different signs of the zodiac on different days, during the course of the year, as well as retrograde stations and lunations, which are New Moons and Full Moons.

All right. So let’s start from the very top in January. So there’s three major things happening in January. So first things first, we’ve got a lunation. We’ve got a lunar eclipse that’s taking place in Cancer on the 10th of January. So this is part of a series of eclipses that have been happening for about a year/year-and-a-half right now that are bouncing back and forth between Cancer, which is your 1st house of body and mind and your sense of self, and the 7th house, which is Capricorn, which represents relationships and partnerships in your life and other close, one-on-one relationships in general. So there was probably something especially that you initiated six months ago, during the last solar eclipse—which was in Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere last summer—that is culminating or being brought to completion now that we’re having this lunar eclipse starting on the 10th of the month, here in January. So for a lot of you, this is part of something that’s been going on for a while now, for at least a year, maybe a year-and-a-half, as we’ve been having eclipses bouncing back and forth between those two signs, and having to balance out themes having to do with your sense of self versus your sense of others, and what you have to do in order to maintain those relationships and keep them balanced or figuring out what to do when those relationships become unbalanced. So sometimes you can err more on the side of putting more into relationships and not keeping back enough for yourself, and other times you can be maybe keeping more to yourself and not putting enough into your relationships. And in either instance, it creates sort of an imbalance. So that eclipse is gonna represent a new development in one part of that. The other part, of course, is that we just had a solar eclipse at the very end of December, which was in your 7th house of relationships. And honestly, that’s where a lot of the action is gonna be happening this year, is in that 7th house, in Capricorn.

So let’s go back to our ingress chart. So we’ve got the lunar eclipse that’s taking place and a culmination of events with respect to your sense of selfhood and either bodily matters, in terms of your physical vitality, or developments related to your character on the 10th of the month. We also have Uranus stationing direct in Taurus, in your 11th house of friends and groups and alliances. So that’s part of a long-term transit that’s gonna take most of the next part of the decade. So I think another like five or six years of Uranus transiting through your 11th house of friends, which can bring some unexpected disruptions, but also, some excitement and some innovation in the area of friendship. Especially if things have been sort of fixed and sort of stable in that area of your life for a long time, they can suddenly become a little bit unstable. But sometimes that can be disorienting and can be problematic, but other times it can be exciting, cuz it can import some excitement into the area of friendship that maybe didn’t exist there previously. So you might have a friend come into your life that has or sort of represents Uranus in some way, that could be kind of rebellious or could kind of shake things up, but in a positive manner, that might bring needed change to your life over the course of the next decade. So we’re still in the very early phases of that transit. But having Uranus station there this month is usually gonna be one of the important turning points, where there should be some related development that pushes things in that direction, as we’re still moving into that transit being only like a year or two into, I think. So that Uranus station is happening around the 9th or the 10th, which is around the same time as that eclipse we were just talking about, the lunar eclipse in Cancer.

Other things that are going on this month, Mars ingresses into Sagittarius on the 3rd. So it’s already there by the time I’m recording this video. It’s going through—it’s going into Sagittarius, into your 6th house, which is the place of work and health, but also, that which you have to do to maintain health, or that which you have to do in order to improve your health when things go awry. So sometimes it can mean putting greater emphasis or effort into that area. Other times it can mean running into issues or challenges in the sphere of health matters. So definitely be careful this month not to push yourself too hard, just because Mars transits can sometimes, if a person goes too far, indicate like injuries or accidents or something like that. The other major thing we have going on this month that I should mention is the Saturn-Pluto conjunction, which is taking place in your 7th house. So this is part of a long-term transit that’s been going on for quite a while now. So Pluto’s been in your 7th house of relationships for more than a decade now, since 2008. And more importantly, Saturn’s been transiting through your 7th house of relationships since two years ago, since December of 2017. So for many people this can bring a period of restructuring when it comes to relationships in general. And for some of you that’s gonna be more constructive. Like it’s gonna mean putting in the hard work and maybe encountering some obstacles in relationships, but by the end of the three-year transit—which will end later this year in December—coming out of it in a sort of better place than when you entered it two years ago. For others, it might be more challenging or might indicate having to walk away from certain relationships if they’re not serving you in a way that’s constructive, or if they’ve reached the end of their life cycle at that point. So a lot of you might be questioning whether you’re at that stage in a current relationship and whether it’s gonna sort of pass the test that it’s currently going through, or whether it’s time to sort of let it go if it’s no longer working out for you.

So we’re getting towards the end of that transit. We’re, what, two years into this three-year transit. So we’re in the last phases of it. So most of you should already have some sense of how it was gonna go or how it’s been going. I guess if you have your ascendant degree very late in Cancer, then you may still see the culmination of that transit over the course of the next year. But it shouldn’t necessarily be something brand new that comes out of nowhere, that you haven’t been experiencing to some extent already, or that you don’t have some idea of at this point, since it’s been building up and occurring for a while now. And one other thing I should mention about the Capricorn transits is that we don’t just have Saturn going through Capricorn this year, because we’ve had that for the past two years. And that’s been kind of a heavy, sometimes difficult or sometimes a low-energy period for relationships. But this year we’ve got a little bit of an offsetting or a balancing influence because Jupiter just moved into Capricorn a month or two ago, and Jupiter tends to bring stabilization and expansion. So there’s two sorts of dueling energies that are going on this year. One of them is the contraction energy of Saturn going through your 7th house of relationships, but the other one is the opposite, which is the expansion energy of Jupiter going through your 7th house of relationships. And you’ll probably feel then competing desires or competing impulses to maybe pursue a relationship, or other times, to seek solitude and maybe avoid relationships. And trying to figure out a way to balance those two is gonna be probably one of the major challenges for you over the next 12 months. There’ll be some alleviation of that when Saturn goes into Aquarius and leaves your 7th house between March and June, and it’ll leave just Jupiter there, which is gonna be more positive and more favorable for relationships. But then Saturn will eventually come back in the second half of the year to sort of test things out and see or complete the final chapter of whatever that transit was about for you in terms of your personal relationships. All right. So going back to the transit chart, those are the three major outer planet transits so far for January. Let’s check in on the chat and see. Okay. We’ve got a lot of people joining us. Hey, everybody. Thanks for joining me in the livestream chat. Thanks to Steve Malecki for the donation. Appreciate it. People are talking about the eclipses. If anybody has any anecdotes or interesting stories so far about either eclipse stories that they’ve had in certain houses or other major transits, please let me know. Otherwise, let’s keep moving to February.

All right. So here’s the transits for February. There’s only really one—I guess there’s two major things. One of them is the Mercury retrograde, the other is Saturn—or, sorry, Mars ingressing into Capricorn. So I’ve already just spent a bit of time talking about the Saturn transit that’s been going on for two years in the sphere of relationships for you in the 7th house, and talking about the one-year Jupiter transit through your 7th house, which just began like a month or two ago, around December-ish, or early December. There’s another planet that joins all of those, which is Mars, on the 16th of February. So when Mars ingresses into your 7th house, again, this can bring a period that’ll last for about a month or so—it’ll last for a few weeks—of greater energy and effort and just energy expenditure that you’ll have to put towards relationships for a period of time, in the best-case scenario. In the more difficult scenario, Mars transits through the 7th house can indicate a period—a shorter-term period of tension and sometimes difficulty or strife within the context of relationships, especially if there’s something that hasn’t been working out about a relationship recently. You can find yourself being a little bit more irritable and a little bit more prone towards either picking fights with a partner, a partner picking fights with you, or even having the experience of severing or separation in relationships, which can either come from you deciding that you need to cut somebody out of your life, or somebody else potentially doing that more towards you. So that doesn’t have to be the case. It’s gonna depend on your birth chart. Especially those with night charts are probably not gonna be experiencing that as being as challenging, whereas those with day charts might experience that transit as being a little bit more tumultuous. But either way, it’s probably not the end of the world, but certainly, something to be aware of. And especially if you find yourself getting into more conflicts with a partner during that time, sort of calming yourself down and assessing whether that’s what you want to be doing or whether you’re just feeling more irritable in some sense during that time period or more inclined towards conflicts than you might be at other times in your life.

So that’s part of the major shift that happens in February. The other major thing that happens is we have a Mercury retrograde period that begins in Pisces, conjunct Neptune, on the 16th of February, right around the same time. So that retrograde, it looks like, is taking place in your 9th house of education, philosophy, religion, and foreign travel. So sometimes a Mercury retrograde conjunct Neptune can indicate miscommunication or having a period where there’s like a sequence of events, where there’s some sort of snafu that takes place. So if you’re going on like a trip or a journey, there are certain issues, like delays, that you could run into during that time period. I would just be careful to dot all of your I’s and cross all of your T’s in terms of making sure that your travel plans are relatively solid and you didn’t make any mistakes when you were booking it. But also, one of the things that you can do during Mercury retrograde periods is just be more flexible, if things do go awry, to sort of go with the flow and deal with it during that time, instead of trying to be more like fixed and immovable or like not able to adapt to the circumstances or the situation that happens at that time. Mercury retrogrades always demand the greatest amount of flexibility from a person. And yeah, happening in your 9th house could be something about a trip. It could be something related to education or something related to your beliefs or your belief system sort of changing, or having a revisiting phase at that time, so that you reassess something about your belief system that may not be like a huge life-altering event necessarily, but it could be a minor thing that requires you to determine if what you thought previously was really everything that you thought it was, or if there’s something that you got wrong—or made mistake—that you need to go back and correct or fix in some way. So Mercury retrograde periods are always three-month periods—or, sorry, three-week periods. So that starts on the 16th of February. The halfway point is already by the 25th of February. And then, already, in early March, we see Mercury retrograde back into Aquarius, into your 8th house of shared resources, where it eventually stations direct on the 9th of March.

So early March, Mercury retrogrades back into Aquarius, and it stations direct on the 9th. Because it’s retrograding back into your 8th house, there could be something about shared resources or other people’s money that you thought you had completed previously a few weeks earlier, but somehow you have to come back to and revisit. So the 8th house sometimes relates to things like taxes, money that’s owed to other people. Other times, if you have a partner, it can indicate the partner’s finances. So there may be something related to that that you thought was finished, but somehow you have to go back and revisit and then eventually you can start moving forward again after March 9. All right, other transits in March. We’ve got two major shifts. One of them is Saturn moves into Aquarius towards the end of the month, on the 21st of March. So that’s a pretty major shift because this is the first time that Saturn has moved into Aquarius, and it’s kind of a few-month preview of what a longer-term, two-or-three-year transit of Saturn through your 8th house is gonna look like. So, on the one hand, that’s kind of good news because it’s gonna move out of your 7th house of relationships and temporarily sort of alleviate some of the more serious tone and maybe even more isolated feelings that you’ve been having in the sphere of relationships over the past two to three years. But it’s gonna bring more seriousness and more focus on restructuring things in the 8th house sphere of other people’s money and some of those other financial topics that I was talking about earlier with the Mercury retrograde. And, in fact, it’s kind of interesting that this month begins with Mercury retrograding back into your 8th house, that sort of sets up the possibility of needing to revisit something there in the short term. And then all of a sudden, towards the end of the month, we have not just Saturn ingressing into that same sector of your chart, and activating similar topics or sort of queuing them up a longer-term transit, but also, we have Mars moving into that sign on the 30th of March as well, for about a one-month-or-so, few-week transit through that sign.

So this is a little bit problematic. Cuz part of what happens is as soon as Saturn goes into Aquarius, Mars joins it, and there’s a Mars-Saturn conjunction in early Aquarius, I think, in the first degree, very, very early in that transit. Let me actually pull up the specific date of that. Cuz I’d like to give you that information here and make sure it’s correct. So here’s the transit chart for February-March. We can see Saturn moving through the end of Capricorn and getting ready to get out of your 7th house. And then we see Saturn moving into Aquarius in late March, and then Mars catches up with it, and the two conjoin at 0° of Aquarius around March 30. So this is a little problematic. Cuz it means whether you have a day chart or you have night chart, both of those transits indicate some sort of obstacle or some sort of difficulty that comes up very early on, when those two planets meet in different houses, depending on what people’s rising signs are. For you, if you have Cancer rising, they’re meeting in your 8th house. So the two primary topics that we associate with the 8th house are other people’s money, or in some instances, the 8th house also has to do with mortality or issues surrounding mortality, which can indicate things like inheritance, but also, sometimes just dealing with the broader question surrounding mortality and what role that plays in your life. So the ingress of Mars and Saturn and their conjunction in early Aquarius, in late March and early April, will somehow bring those topics or those themes into your life in a way that might demand or might require you dealing with it head on and dealing with it in a way that’s kind of sobering but probably necessary in some way. So the Mars transit—the good news is that it’s relatively brief. Cuz we see Mars going into Aquarius here in late March. And already Mars leaves about a month later. It looks like it goes into Pisces May 13. So it’s like a month/month-and-a-half-long transit of Mars through that sign. That’s gonna be the more intense period for those with day charts, where issues are more likely to come up. Whereas the people with night charts will tend to have more of the issues with the Saturn part of that transit, which also just lasts for about two or three months this year before it returns back to Capricorn, finishes up that transit, then comes back to Aquarius is December for a longer two-year-type transit. So it’s more of a long-term-type experience for Saturn, of course, which always spends two to three years in each sign.

All right. So that is March. Those are the two main things. We have the Mercury retrograde station in Aquarius, which then tees up the Saturn and Mars ingress at the very end of that month. Let me take a look and see how the chat is going, and if anybody has any questions. Yeah, actually it looks like there’s a lot of discussion. So thanks everyone for joining in and adding stuff. I appreciate it. Gina Scott says: “Thanks for doing this.” Thank you for joining me. All right. So let’s go back and let’s look at the following month. We’re now getting into April and the, what, second quarter of the year. At this point, we have a Jupiter-Pluto conjunction relatively early. This is taking place in the 7th house. One of the things I would say about that is just that Jupiter can sometimes indicate expansion and the desire to like rapidly expand in some area, and Pluto can just intensify whatever planets it touches. So your desire to rapidly expand in the area of relationships may be at its sort of peak at this time when you have this Jupiter-Pluto conjunction early April. I might just caution you to maybe slow down a little bit and maybe not go too fast, especially after a two-year period where relationships have been a little bit slower or a little bit more dicey, when we have Saturn leaving your 7th house. And all of a sudden, just Jupiter transiting there, and then it conjoins Pluto—you might want to start moving forward in expanding the sphere of relationships, but you might want to be careful about not jumping into something too quickly or expanding too rapidly, just because you could overextend yourself in some way. But otherwise, it’s a perfectly fine, potentially intense transit for relationships happening around that time. What else do we have going on? April’s actually not that active in terms of outer planet transits. There is a Pluto station that occurs in Capricorn. But that’s kind of just, again, an intensification of some of the 7th house stuff, and it’s just connected with, for the most part, that Jupiter transit, which is the other outer planet that’s still in that sign at that point, later in April, around the 25th. So let’s move forward to May.

So in May we’ve got more activity going on. So the first thing that happens is we have Saturn stationing retrograde in Aquarius. So whatever this long-term, Saturn transit is about for you—with Saturn going in Aquarius—this is just a preview for a few months in 2020, and really it’s something that doesn’t get fully started or doesn’t get really going all the way until the end of 2020. This station of Saturn is probably gonna tell you if that’s gonna be an important transit for and what that’s gonna be all about, and I would pay attention to some of those 8th house themes that we talked about earlier. Because if any major 8th house things happen around this time, around the Saturn station in Aquarius, then that’s probably gonna be an indication of what is to come and an indication of some of the themes that you’re gonna be dealing with when Saturn returns to Aquarius later in the year, for the next two years after that point. So if that has to do with like restructuring finances with your spouse, or your spouse running into like financial issues, or having financial obstacles coming up, like that’s a possible recurring theme. If there’s some sort of issue with an inheritance, that could be like a long-term thing, then that could be a recurring issue for you if that comes up around that time. Just pay attention to it because it’ll be a nice preview of that Saturn transit in the future. All right. So Saturn stations. Mars, interestingly, right around the same time, just two days later, finishes up its transit through Aquarius, gets out of your 8th house and moves into your 9th house. So Mars will then be transiting through your 9th house for about like a month or so, and this kind of brings back some of the Mercury retrograde things that we were talking about earlier through your 9th house back in, I think, February, I believe, where that tended to be more about like snafus and stuff. Mars through the 9th house can put more energy towards educational pursuits, towards travel, or towards developing your personal philosophy or beliefs. But it can also show sometimes conflict or tensions coming up in that area for different reasons. So maybe you get into like an intellectual dispute with somebody. Maybe you have to like separate something in terms of your education, like dropping a course if you’re in school, due to some issue that you run into at that point. The general theme is just the idea of either the exertion of energy and putting more energy into that area of your life, especially if it’s preparing you for something career-wise. Or, alternatively, it can be just separating from something and having more of a desire to separate, a necessity to separate yourself in some way in that area of your life for about a month or two. So if you’re going on a trip at that time, or you’re doing other sorts of 9th house activities, I would just caution you to avoid impulsiveness. Because sometimes Mars can lead us to be more impulsive or more reckless in whatever part of the chart it’s transiting and sometimes that impulsivity can get us into trouble. So that’s ingressing around the 13th of May.

Pretty much simultaneously, around the same time, we have Venus, which is stationing retrograde in Gemini, and Gemini is your 12th house. So the 12th house is the house of secrets. Traditionally, the 12th house also has to do with things like enemies. Sometimes it has to do with a bunch of topics. The 12th is kind of a challenging house. Because it’s occurring almost simultaneously with the Mars ingress into your 9th, I guess I would just be a little bit careful. Sometimes Venus retrogrades can bring people back into our life, especially in eight-year increments. So eight years ago was the last time that Venus went retrograde in Gemini. For you, it could bring people back into your life that maybe work at cross-purposes to you, or who perhaps you didn’t get along with in the past. And it may cause you to have to revisit that relationship in some way in order to understand why that didn’t work out or why the two of you didn’t really get along or ended up working at cross-purposes. So you have to be a little careful about that because at the same time Venus is gonna station retrograde square Neptune. So it could cause you to revisit something that maybe wasn’t good for you, or a relationship that wasn’t that great for you, which maybe you’d forgotten, since that relationship ended, why exactly it ended, or what wasn’t good about it for you. And so, perhaps you could go back to something and need kind of a reminder of that during the course of that Venus retrograde period. But just be a little bit careful, cuz sometimes with Venus square Neptune, that which looks appealing can be not all it’s cracked up to be, and that could end up being the point of that transit for you. Especially since the 12th can also have to do with things like self-undoing or ways in which we undermine ourselves. So be careful not to do something that could undermine yourself during that time, especially if it’s simply due to not being clear or having like a nebulous sense of that being a good feeling, even if it’s not something that’s necessarily good for you. All right. So that’s the Venus retrograde that’s happening there in Gemini. And that’s gonna last for a few weeks. It starts on the 13th of May. And we can see it goes through all the way until the 25th of June. It’s all entirely in Gemini. If you wanted a preview of what that might be like, just think back in eight-year increments, like 2012, and so on and so forth—all the way as far back as you wanna go—and that could give you some preview, cuz those are the other times that Venus went retrograde in the same sector of your chart. And sometimes there can be repetitions, if Venus is an important planet for you, during those eight-year increments.

All right. So the other major thing that happens right around, very weirdly, the same time is Jupiter stations retrograde in Capricorn on the 14th of May. So interestingly, this is happening in your 7th house, which, again, maybe emphasizing relationship themes happening at this time. So the Jupiter transit itself, through your 7th house, is just indicating a period of growth and expansion in relationships. This indicates an important or pivotal turning point with respect to that sequence of events over this entire year, over this 12-month period of basically December of 2019 through December of 2020. And this is one of two really important turning points—basically, the Jupiter stations—when that should take place. So this, again, is maybe emphasizing relationship themes. But just be a little careful with the Venus retrograde going retrograde in your 12th house, that it’s something that’s positive, if you’re pursuing some relationship, especially if it’s a new relationship, and that it’s something constructive or supportive of your life, rather than something that’s sort of problematic. All right. I think those are the major transits for May. So we’re almost getting into—we’re in the middle of the year at this point. And what starts happening is we start getting into eclipse season by June. So let me check out—okay.

So we get into eclipse season by June. That opens, basically, halfway through the Venus retrograde cycle. We get the Sun-Venus cazimi, which takes place on the 3rd of June. So that’s the halfway point. And then right after that we get an eclipse, which takes place. A lunar eclipse, which takes place on the 5th of June in the sign of Sagittarius. So Sagittarius is your sixth whole sign house, which is the place of work and health. But also, if you own a business, it can be a place of like those who work for you, or those who are employees or in a subordinate role to you in some way. This is sort of queuing up a series of eclipses, where the eclipses are gonna stop being in your 7th and 1st houses—so the house of self and the house of other—and it’s gonna shift towards your 12th house and your 6th house. So this eclipse, especially with the 6th house, can show a culmination or at least a period of putting greater emphasis and greater attention towards matters pertaining to your work and matters pertaining to your health. So sometimes the reason for that can be that there’s a reason, like something that comes up, that causes you to just put more attention towards health during that time period. Since this is the first eclipse that’s taking place in that sign—and it’s queuing up about a year or a year-and-a-half-long sequence of eclipses that’s gonna bounce back and forth between the 6th and the 12th house—it may not be a singular event. But it may be a shift that you notice around that time where you start having to pay more attention to your health for some reason and taking better care of yourself than perhaps you did up to that point. So that’s the first eclipse that takes place. Tied in with that, or potentially connected with that, is the next eclipse, which takes place later in the month, in the sign of Cancer, in your rising sign—if you’re looking at this from the perspective of your rising sign—which is the house that represents both your body and physical vitality, as well as your mind and your character in general. So this is representing—even though it’s the end of a series of eclipses that have been bouncing back and forth in Cancer and Capricorn—so your 1st and 7th house—this is a solar eclipse in Cancer. So it should mark—my usual keywords for eclipses are either great beginnings or great endings. So this is marking a great beginning, especially for you, with respect to your body and physical vitality, but also, potentially, with respect to changes in your character and your personality that have been happening over the course of the past year-and-a-half as you’ve had these successive eclipses in your 1st house, and you’ve had to define more clearly who you are and how you appear to the world in general.

So if you’ve been trying to put yourself out more, if you’ve been trying to develop some aspect of your personality, this is a great time to make the final push to really move into that and to really adopt and sort of own some of those changes and incorporate them into your personality in a way that is having some sense of finality. So now it’s the time to finally make that jump or make that leap if it’s something that you’ve been like slowly inching towards but haven’t really dived into at this point. In other instances, if it’s not a character-based thing, it may be a bodily-based thing. And so, it could be connected to the other eclipse in your 6th house, where if there’s something you’ve been needing to change about your physical body or your health or what you do to maintain your body and your health, then this may be a good time to finally make the final changes that will last in the long term. Since this is an eclipse, it’s gonna have a six-month time span where everything might not happen at once. But if you initiate the change at this time—around the time of this eclipse in late June—then it’s something that, by the end of that six-month period, you should see some major results. So some people might do something as simple as like start going to the gym, or they might start a new food or dietary-type regime in order to maybe incorporate or get better nutrients or something like that. Both of these eclipses seem to really be tied into themes of having to do with your health, but also, what it takes to maintain your health and your body versus trying to isolate and remove that which perhaps detracts from your physical health and vitality in ways that aren’t healthy.

All right. Other stuff going on. We’ve got our second Mercury retrograde of the year taking place in June. So it starts on the 18th of June, where Mercury goes retrograde in the sign of Cancer. So this is your 1st house. It could indicate a period of, again, just reassessing things with respect to your health and your physical body. There could be something that you thought you had done previously, where there was a communication or a mistake that forces you to revisit that. And perhaps there’s new information that comes out at this time that you didn’t know, that causes you to make changes that are significant or notable in some way. By the end of the month, we have Venus, of course, stationing direct, which I talked about earlier. And we have Mars finally getting out of Pisces and moving into Aries on the 27th of June, and moving into your 10th house of career. So normally, this would be a relatively short transit that would just last for like a month or a few weeks and that would be the end of it, but Mars is actually gonna station retrograde in September. So shortly after it moves into Aries, and into your 10th house of career, it’s gonna start slowing down. So this is gonna be an extended transit that’s gonna last much longer, and it’s gonna be one of the more characteristic and important transits of the year, especially if Mars is activated in your chart for some reason this year, like through a time-lord technique, like annual profections or something like that. Especially if you’re in an Aries profection year or a Scorpio profection year.

So the 10th house primarily pertains to your career, your overall life direction, your reputation, but also, just your public life in general. And sometimes that can extend to people that have a sort of superior position over you. So it can indicate bosses or other superiors, if you have any in your line of work. Or if you are your own boss, then it really can be just focused on your reputation and what your overall goals and sort of aspirations are in general. So a Mars ingress into the 10th house can be kind of tricky. It can indicate a period where you have to put a lot more energy into your work and a lot more focus. And you could have a greater expenditure of energy during this time, which might cause some things, like physical exhaustion, due to just having to exert yourself for an extended period. Cuz this is not a quick Mars jaunt through Aries. But instead, it’s spending this extended—I think almost like six-month period in that same sign. So this is more like a marathon when it comes to your career during this second half of the year, rather than a short sprint, but that can be positive. Sometimes if there’s a new project that you need to launch, sometimes just knowing that it’s gonna take a lot of work, and knowing that this gonna be a period where you’re gonna have to put more energy into your career than other times can just be good to know ahead of time, and it may be something you’re already aware of and is not terribly surprising. For other people, especially if you have a day chart, a Mars transit through the 10th house could be a period that’s more tense, where there could be more friction at work for some reason, or more friction in terms of your job or career. Or even in some extreme scenarios, there could be instances of like strife or separation or discord when it comes to your job and your career and your reputation at this time. So the sequence of events that this is tied into is gonna begin at this point in late June, but it’s not really gonna culminate until later in September, when Mars slows down and stations retrograde towards the end of Aries, in your tenth whole sign house. And we’ll get to, in a couple of months, why that’s even more important. Cuz it’s actually gonna be squaring some of the Capricorn planets in your 7th house of relationships, and therefore, perhaps setting up some tensions between your career and relationships during the second half of the year. Okay, so that Mars ingress is the final thing of June, and then we transition into July and the second half of the year. Let me take a look at the chat and how that’s going. So thanks to Alisa XO for the $10 donation. I appreciate it. This is kind of a long marathon of doing all of these livestreams, but it’s fun, and it’s kind of a nice experiment to see how it works. Thanks also to Ryan for the donation. He says: “Transiting Pluto conjunct Saturn and opposite Venus.” Okay, yeah, that is one I’ll have to maybe come back to. If anybody has an answer for him in the chat, let me know. All right. So let’s talk about the second half of the year.

All right. So here’s the transiting chart for July, or here’s the ingresses. One of the things that’s happening is there’s an eclipse in Capricorn. So this is just barely an eclipse. Cuz I think it’s not super close to the nodes, but I think in the ephemeris it is being counted as barely an eclipse. So this is gonna be the last of the eclipses that take place in Capricorn, in your 7th house of relationships. So it’s sort of a culmination of a year-and-a-half now of eclipses bouncing back and forth between your 1st house of self and your 7th house of others. And because it’s a solar eclipse—actually I should clarify because it should be a lunar eclipse that’s taking place in July. It’s gonna represent a culmination of events or a climax in bringing to completion some major themes that have been going on in that area of your life, especially over the past couple of years. So for some of you, this may not have been easy because Saturn has been transiting through that sign at the same time. And at the very top of July, we have Saturn actually retrograding back into Capricorn and returning for the final like five-or-six-month visit through that sign. So a lot of those themes of obstacles and challenges and sometimes setbacks in relationships that you’ve already been experiencing for the past two years will sort of culminate at this time. And you’ll have a chance to look back at how the past couple of years have gone and sort revisit some of those themes and figure out what you’ve learned from them, if there was anything valuable that you did learn from those experiences that you can incorporate into your life and can use to sort of grow and develop as a person, so that you can avoid similar situations going into the future.

So, obviously, sometimes there are things that we can learn from like challenging obstacles that come up in our life. Other times just random stuff happens and there’s not a lot you can do or learn from it. But either way, it’s a good period from this point forward—from July forward—to assess how things have gone in the sphere of relationships for you in the past couple of years and just figure out what you can gain from it, so that you can close down that chapter of your life and then finally move forward and put it completely in the past by the end of the year, when all of this wraps up in December. So this is the beginning of the end of that transit in July, with Saturn moving back into Capricorn, and the final eclipse taking place in that sign around July 5. Mercury, interestingly, which has been retrograde in Cancer, in your 1st house, stations direct not long after that, on the 12th of July. So there’s some clarification or rectification of matters, which becomes focused on your 1st house of self. While that might not otherwise be a major transit for you, a Mercury retrograde, the fact that it’s in the 1st house—and it’s highlighting that axis of your 1st house and your 7th house—seems kind of notable. Of course, around this time, we’ve got a New Moon in Cancer, but that happens every month, and it’s not a major eclipse, so that may not be super-notable. And that’s pretty much the major stuff that’s happening in July, just that Mercury retrograde station and the eclipse in Capricorn and Saturn retrograding back into Capricorn.

This takes us into August. August isn’t super-active in terms of outer planet transits. It’s mainly inner planet transits and ingresses and lunations. The one notable thing that is worth mentioning is Uranus will station retrograde at 10° of Taurus on August 15. So this is the furthest into Taurus that Uranus will get this year, or has gotten by this point. And if you have anything around 10° of fixed signs, then you should really start to feel that transit of Uranus by this time. Again, as I was talking about earlier, cuz it’s going through your 11th house of friends and groups and alliances, it may be causing or coinciding with a period of instability or a period of shakeups when it comes to your friends and the groups and the alliances that you have in your life. But ultimately, for some people, that’s gonna be kind of an exciting shakeup that could push you in a direction that you might not have gone otherwise if there hadn’t been a sort of loosening up in that area of your life. So it could be, although, somewhat unsettling, ultimately productive, albeit, somewhat perhaps unexpected or disruptive. So if you have, again, planets in early fixed signs, around 10°, then you’re really gonna feel that. But for others, if you don’t have planets until later degrees of fixed signs, then that transit may not really fully set in, in your life, until a few years from now. So that’s the main thing for August.

For September—September is really focused on the Mars retrograde. I mean, that’s the primary, primary thing that we have going on, which is that Mars has been moving into Aries—or moved into Aries a few months ago, all the way back in, what was it? Yeah, June. The end of June, Mars moved into Aries, into your 10th house of career. But then it slowed down and started moving super-slow until eventually it stations retrograde in the later degrees of Aries, on the 9th of September, in your tenth whole sign house, so in the house of career. So this is one of two really pivotal turning points where you’re gonna run into issues related to either greater exertion in the sphere of your career, so having more events taking place and having to expend more energy in the sphere of your career. Or, alternatively, if you’re gonna run into tensions or sort of strife in the sphere of your career, then this time period—when Mars stations—is really gonna be one of the two most pivotal periods. So the very first station of Mars in that sign is the first one, and the second one is when Mars eventually will station direct several weeks later, earlier in Aries. So one of the reasons this is important, and one of the ways that we might be able to understand what it’s doing in your chart is by realizing that when Mars goes retrograde in your 10th house, it’s not just aspecting and activating 10th house topics, but oftentimes, a planet will activate topics in the other angular houses as well. So Mars stationing in your 10th house of career is also gonna be squaring your 1st house of body and mind. So it could be indicating a period—especially if it’s squaring the degree of your ascendant—where you could be a little bit more irritable mentally. Or, physically, you could—through the expenditure of so much energy through your career—you could push yourself too far and sort of exhaust yourself physically in the 1st house representation of the body.

Additionally, with Mars going through the 10th house of career, it’s gonna be opposing the 4th house of the home and the living situation. So sometimes needing to figure out a balance between your public life and your private life and perhaps putting more energy into one and creating problems in the other. So putting so much emphasis on your work could indicate creating some problems or some tensions at home, in your living situation. And then, finally, at the same time, Mars will be squaring your 7th house, and for some of you, maybe squaring the degree of your descendant, so that some of the things happening at work could create tensions especially in terms of your relationships, or if you’re in a long-term relationship, or if you’re in a marriage, tensions with your marriage partner. So I mention that especially because one of the things that’s notable when Mars stations retrograde is just how close it is to squaring Saturn, as well as, to a lesser extent, Jupiter and Pluto in late Capricorn at that time. So let me move the charts forward to September. And then we’ll see what that actually looks like in terms of the specific degrees that the planets are occupying at that time. So here’s the Mars station at 28° of Aries. So, again, that’s gonna be especially important if you have your ascendant in the later degrees of Cancer. So if you have like 28° of Cancer rising, for example, it will be squaring your ascendant, as well as squaring your descendant. But notice how Mars at 28° of Aries is pretty closely squaring Saturn at 25° of Capricorn. So that’s one of the reasons why, for example, if your ascendant is in late Cancer, then Mars is gonna be squaring your ascendant/descendant axis, and then Saturn’s gonna be hovering around your descendant at the same time. So that’s one of the reasons why I tend to think that—especially for people with late Cancer rising—the majority of the focus here could be on the tensions between the 10th house and your work and the 7th house and your relationships. Or that somehow tensions in the sphere of your career could create tensions in the sphere of relationships. And so, one of your challenges during this time is just gonna be figuring out how to balance the two, and how to let some of the pressure out—sort of like a pressure valve—so that things don’t sort of explode in one of those areas if there’s no release that allows you to sort of relieve some of the tension.

All right. So that’s one of the main things in September. It’s just that Mars station and a sort of culmination of events with respect to whatever that transit is about for you in your 10th house of career. Around the same time, Jupiter stations direct in the earlier degrees of Capricorn. So this is another, hopefully positive, but either way, pivotal turning point with respect to the Jupiter transit through your 7th house of relationships. So especially for those of you with day charts, that’s kind of a positive thing. Let me throw up a chart with Cancer rising and show you Jupiter stationing direct here, around September 12-13. So that’s a little bit helpful, cuz at least it’s bringing some positive, forward movement or forward direction when it comes to the positive significations of Jupiter in the sphere of relationships, which, hopefully, will balance out some of the tension aspects that we were seeing, especially earlier in the month, between Mars and Saturn in that square. Elsewhere in that month we have Saturn stationing direct, for its final direct station, in the sign of Capricorn. So it’s basically indicating the beginning of the end of that transit and the final stretch of Saturn going through Capricorn when it stations direct in that sign, around 25-ish degrees, on the 29th of September. So for those of you where that’s been like a difficult transit, it’ll be wrapping up the last of the difficulties. And for those of you where that’s been a constructive transit—where you’ve built more structures and more firm foundations into your relationships—this is gonna be like putting the final brick in whatever that structure is in your 7th house of relationships, and then just sort of sweeping things up as you make your way out of that transit over the course of the next five or six months, between now and December.

All right. So that takes us in, eventually, to the following month, which is the month of October. And in October, it looks like we’ve got Pluto stationing direct in Capricorn, which isn’t a big deal, because that’s just, again, more ongoing, 7th house stuff. We do have a Mercury retrograde, which is beginning in October, which I believe is stationing retrograde in Scorpio, which is your 5th house. The 5th house has to do with things like children, if you have any children. It can also have to do with issues pertaining to creativity or pleasure and what you do for fun and enjoyment, as well as the 5th house has to do with sex traditionally. So this Mercury retrograde is kind of unique, cuz it’s not like the other two, where it just stays in one sign. But instead, Mercury’s gonna station retrograde in Scorpio, in your 5th house, and then it’s gonna fall back into your 4th house of your home and your living situation and your family. So for some of you there could be some sort of connection or some sort of need to revisit some actions that took place just prior to the Mercury retrograde, when it started moving into its shadow, and when it moved through your 4th house and your 5th house initially. There could be a connection between like children and parents, or children and your living situation that has to be revisited, or which should have been an easy or a quick matter, but for some reason ends up needing you to spend extra time sort of dwelling on it for a three-or-four-week period during the course of the Mercury retrograde. So Mercury will station retrograde on the 13th of October, but then it retrogrades back into Libra by the 27th and back into your 4th house, which could cause you to have to revisit something in terms of your living situation or your family, or alternatively, your private life. And then, eventually, Mercury will station direct in Libra at the very beginning of November, on November 3. So by that time you should start to see some rectification of the events or of the snafus that took place in that part of your life, and it should start to be wrapped up at that time. Elsewhere in October we’ve got lunations. Jupiter sextile Neptune is not really anything to write home about necessarily. Yeah, I think that’s it for outer planet transits in October. It’s really primarily just that Mercury retrograde that takes place starting in the middle of the month.

So this takes into November. Mercury stations direct at the very top of the month. Additionally, besides that, we have Jupiter conjunct Pluto in your 7th house for the very last time, and again, that idea of like expanding rapidly in the sphere of relationships and creating new structures there. At the same time, we have Mars—more notably and probably more importantly—stationing direct in Aries, in your 10th house. So if there was a period of running into obstacles or difficulties or feelings of frustration in terms of your career—and that causing tensions in other areas of your life, like in the area of relationships—that starts to be resolved. It’s not gonna be full over, but it starts to clear itself up by the time that Mars stations direct on the 13th of November. So you start to get the beginning of the end of that transit. Cuz Mars then is gonna start moving forward again, and then will, eventually by early next year, make its way out of Aries and out of your 10th house of career. And the very end of the month, we see Neptune stationing direct in Pisces, which is your 9th house. And I only wanna mention that because this is a very long transit of Neptune through Pisces that lasts for like a decade. It’s going through your 9th house of belief and religion, and it can create some nebulousness surrounding your beliefs or what your ideas are surrounding belief systems or religion. This isn’t necessarily gonna be an important turning point in terms of that, but it’s something that’s worth mentioning as something you’re going through for most of this decade, where there’s maybe things about your beliefs that are not very clearly defined during that time. But that’s okay because sometimes that can be necessary and that can be important to go through a period where things aren’t as fixed or aren’t as well-developed and you have a period to try out and sort of test out different beliefs and different manners without necessarily having to settle on a single one. So maybe once that transit is over, and once you get out of the other side of it, you may become a little bit more settled on something specific. But during this time, if you find yourself sort of going from belief to belief, or learning different things and exposing yourself to different educational programs, I think that that’s okay. And I think you shouldn’t necessarily be too hard on yourself if you’re worried that things have become too blurry in terms of some of your different beliefs in life.

All right. So that’s actually not the major, major transit, though. The last major transit in November is an eclipse that takes place. So we start moving into eclipse season again, and we get a lunar eclipse, which takes place in the sign of Gemini, and Gemini is your 12th house. So this is tied into—not just that eclipse there, but also, there’s another eclipse that takes place in Sagittarius, in your 6th house of work and health, or work and illness—depending on how you wanna frame that—on the 14th of December. So this means that, on the one hand, we’re returning back to something that was kind of initiated six months earlier, and part of this has to do with this 6th house/12th house axis, with some of the health issues and some of the things that you may have initiated in terms of your health and how you try to maintain your health, that you started over the previous summer. Some of those things that you started at that time, you’re gonna start to see results. So if you initiated something that was like a positive health program in terms of changing dietary things, or changing starting to work out or do something else to improve your body and how you maintain your body, you’ll probably start to see results at this time, once we start hitting these eclipses. On the other hand, if there’s something that you’ve started that was problematic somehow for health, or was not supportive of either your bodily vitality or your mental vitality—which is very much a 12th house-type of signification—then you might start to see some of the negative side effects of that happening or starting to manifest around this time, once we hit the eclipse on the 30th of November, and then the next eclipse on the 14th of December. So rarely is this like a single event, but instead, usually it’s like a sequence of events or a series of events. I would just be careful that whatever you’re initiating in your life at this time, try to do it as constructively as possible. That way, this is like a sequence of events in six-month time periods where you’re building something up that’s positive and that is supportive of you, rather than something that is negative or destructive. Especially something that’s sort of self-destructive or that undermines you in some way.

So this takes us finally to the last month of the year, which is December. And aside from the eclipses happening, the major, major thing that’s happening in December is we get the completion of the three-year transit of Saturn through Capricorn and through your 7th house of relationships, as well as the completion of Jupiter’s 12-month transit through Capricorn and through your sphere of relationships as well. So suddenly there’s huge shift that takes place where a lot of the emphasis not just with the Saturn and Jupiter transits—which the Saturn transit began three years ago at this point, in December of 2017—but also, the shift of the eclipses away from your 1st house and your 7th house as well. So whatever’s been going on for you in the sphere of relationships over the course of the past three years—and especially over the past year, especially since the beginning of 2020 or the end of 2019—all of that just sort comes to an end at this point in December, and a lot of the emphasis on relationships is no longer there. There’s something that is completed and you sort of move on from this point in December of 2020. So what happens, though, is we get more of a shift towards your 8th house, and Saturn begins a two-year transit through Aquarius and through 8th house, and Jupiter begins a one-year transit through Aquarius in your 8th house. So I talked about this earlier in 2020 because we had that preview of what some of the themes are gonna be like when Saturn first dipped into Aquarius between March and June. But that was just a little taste of what this transit will be about, and it really begins in earnest at this time. So again, just to reiterate some of the themes of the 8th house from the poster that I put out this year—when we did the ‘significations of the houses’ episode—the 8th house has to do with topics like mortality and your relationship towards mortality, whether it’s your own, or whether it’s that of people around you, or just the topic in general and how you feel about it, but also, issues related to inheritance, to the assets belonging to others, as well as other people’s money in general. Sometimes if you’re in, for example, a long-term partnership or a marriage, it can indicate something going on with your partner’s finances. Maybe in previous years they had been doing better financially, but there’s some sort of challenge or some sort of restructuring that has to take place with respect to their finances, which can sometimes affect you in different ways. It’s nice because at least in the first part of this transit, Jupiter will be joining Saturn. And those two planets will form a conjunction for the first time in 20 years in Aquarius, towards the end of December. And Jupiter will help to kind of balance out, whereas Saturn can sometimes indicate losses and a period of like tightening up or constriction here, especially surrounding financial matters, or finances involving others. Jupiter is gonna balance that out a little bit and bring a little bit more of a positive or optimistic vibe, so that even if there are some challenges, there’s probably gonna be some positive, counterbalancing things that are either gonna help to balance out the pitfalls of Saturn. Or they’re at least going to indicate that if there’s a challenge that comes up, there may be something positive that comes up in that area at the same time in parallel.

So I’ve seen things when people have both a malefic planet and a benefic planet transiting the 8th house, where there’s some issue of a loss of somebody or an issue of death or mortality, but then they turned out inherit a large amount of money or something like that because of the benefic side of the transit. So that’s one extreme example, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be that extreme. But it can give you an example of just both positive and negative things happening in that sphere of your life at the same time. We’ve had a little bit of that in 2020 with both of those planets transiting through your 7th house. But now, for 2021, the energy shifts towards your 8th house. But I guess we’ll have to save more of the details and more of the forecast of that for next year, since most of that transit really doesn’t go into effect until 2021, since the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn takes place at the very end of December. So I think then, looking at the calendar, that’s pretty much it. There’s the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction on the 21st, and that brings us to the end of 2020 for those that have Cancer and Cancer rising.

All right. Thanks to everybody who joined me in the live chat. This has been good. I haven’t really had a chance to follow everyone’s comments as much as I would have liked. But I hoped everybody enjoyed following this, and it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out. If you have already had some experience with some of these transits that you wanna share, then please post them either in the live chat or in the comments section below this video, cuz I always like hearing comments and hearing how some of these transits have actually played out for people. Because while I try to describe them in relatively broad, archetypal terms, it’s really interesting then when sometimes people can take that and then explain the specifics of how that’s played out for them based on their actual birth chart and the specific placements in it, and that’s when things get really interesting. So yeah, thanks a lot everyone for joining me. Thanks to CoreJ. I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for being a patron. That reminds me, I need to plug all of that stuff, since the only reason I’m able to do this is because of the support of patrons who support The Astrology Podcast through my page on Patreon. So, in particular, thanks to patrons Christine Stone, Nate Craddock, and Tanner Robinson, as well as the Astro Gold Astrology App, available at Astrogold.io, the Portland School of Astrology, available at PortlandAstrology.org, and the Honeycomb Collective Personal Astrological Almanacs, available at Honeycomb.co. There’s two major astrology conferences happening this year. One of them is hosted by the International Society for Astrological Research, and that conference is happening in Denver, Colorado, September 10-14. You can find out more information at ISAR2020.org. And then there’s also the Northwest Astrological Conference. It’s happening in Seattle, May 21-25, 2020. More information about that at NORWAC.net. If you wanna become a patron of The Astrology Podcast and get bonus content, like early access to new episodes, then you can find out more information about that or sign up at Patreon.com/AstrologyPodcast.

Most of the artwork for this episode—like with the significations of the houses diagram, the planetary alignments, and the planetary movements—is actually available in a poster set that I just released. It contains three posters that show you all of the major transits that are gonna happen during the course of the year. So a lot of this stuff that I’ve been talking about, you can sort of put it on your wall and see when some of those transits will be starting or ending at a glance. So you can find out more information about that at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2020Posters. And then, finally, Leisa Schaim and I just released our 2020 Auspicious Elections Full Year Ahead Electional Report, where we went through each of the next 12 months and we picked out one lucky day during each of those 12 months to launch different types of ventures and undertakings using the principles of electional astrology. So I put a promo video about that out just a few days ago on my YouTube channel. Or you can find out more information about it at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2020Posters. Actually, it’s ChrisBrennanAstrologer.com/2020Report or 2020Elections. Just visit the website and you’ll find out more information about that. And I’ll have to update my graphics here. All right. Thanks everybody for joining me. Thanks for watching the livestream or watching this video. I’m gonna take a little break, and then I’ll be back again to do a livestream and record the horoscope forecast for Leo and Leo rising. So thanks everyone for joining me, and I’ll see you next time.

LEO AND LEO RISING

CB: Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and this is your horoscope for Leo and Leo rising, for the entire year of 2020. So tonight I’m gonna be doing a livestream, where I’m gonna go through, over the course of the next 40 minutes to an hour, the next 12 months of the year, and give you sort of a broad overview of some of the major planetary transits and some of the parts of your birth chart that are gonna be activated over the course of the next year. So this horoscope is for Leo and Leo rising. And while you can look at it from the perspective of your Sun sign, if you Sun is in the zodiacal sign of Leo, especially if you were born during the day, or your Moon sign, especially if your Moon was in Leo when you were born, and you were born at night, I’d really recommend looking at these horoscopes primarily from the perspective of your rising sign. So if you don’t know that, you can get a copy of your birth chart if you go to websites like Astro.com, entering your birth information, including the exact birth time, and it’ll tell you what your ascendant or your rising sign is. So if you have Leo rising, then this video is primarily for you. All right. Let’s jump into it, and let’s pull up the calendar for January. So we’re gonna be looking at a few different pieces of artwork here from some calendars and some posters that I released this year, which show the astrology of the next 12 months. One of them is the Planetary Alignments Calendar, which shows when different planets move into different signs, when the New Moon and Full Moons will take place each month, eclipses, as well as planetary—some planetary aspects and most planetary stations. Like when a planet stations retrograde or direct. I’ve also got the Planetary Movements Poster for this year, which shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the year and how far through the signs of the zodiac they’ll get by the end of 2020. All right. So let’s start off with January.

So the big thing in January is this is happening during eclipse season, and we have an eclipse that’s taking place—a lunar eclipse that’s taking place on the 10th of January, and that’s taking place in Cancer, which is your 12th house. Just before that, in December, we had a solar eclipse, which took place in Capricorn, in your 6th house of health and work. These eclipses are kind of wrapping up a series of eclipses this year that have been going on for at least a year now. And it’s sort of compounded with some other major transits going through the sign of Capricorn especially, and to a lesser extent, the sign of Cancer later in the year. So we’ll get into that more in just a little bit, cuz I wanna talk about Saturn going through Capricorn, as well as Jupiter. But I also wanna mention the other major outer planet transits happening this month are Uranus stationing direct in Taurus at 2°, which is in your tenth whole sign house, which is the place in the chart that has to do with your career. So this is a long-term transit that’s taking place over the course of most of the next decade. It only really got fully started about a year ago when Uranus permanently moved into the sign of Taurus and into your 10th house of career. Sometimes the transit of Uranus through the 10th house can indicate sort of like shakeups or unexpected disruptions that take place in the context of your career or your overall life direction. So previously, that can kind of be positive sometimes, or it can be more challenging other times. If you previously had a specific career or set direction in life, there could be something that comes along that shakes things up a little bit and sends you on a course that’s different, or a trajectory that’s different than where you might have been headed up to this point. So we’re still relatively early in this transit, so it may not be super-important for you yet, unless you have planets very early in the fixed signs, such as Taurus, Leo, Aquarius, or Scorpio. But it’s definitely something to start paying attention to because once the transit is finished, things related to your career may look much different than when you went into it. And sometimes there can be a sort of curve ball that comes out of nowhere that you didn’t anticipate, that shakes things up. So this year, we’re gonna get about a third of the way through that transit because Uranus is gonna make it to about 10° of Taurus later in the year, before going retrograde again. But this month, in January, represents one of the important turning points of that entire transit because Uranus is stationing in that sign at the very beginning of the year. So that’s one of the major outer planet transits I wanted to mention.

Aside from that, in January, let’s see. Besides the eclipses, we also have a Saturn-Pluto conjunction that’s taking place in Capricorn, in your 6th house. So at this point we’re about two years through this transit of Saturn through your 6th house. And traditionally, the 6th house signifies or relates to things like illness, injuries, work, and if you own your own business, it can relate to employees or people that are in a subordinate position to you in general. So for the most part, oftentimes, with a transit like this, with Saturn going through the 6th house, it can raise issues related to health or how you take care of yourself in terms of your daily routine and in terms of how well you take care your body and do sort of normal maintenance issues that need to happen or need to take place. And sometimes a transit of Saturn through the 6th house can raise or bring issues to the surface, that way, they can be dealt with and addressed, and then in the future, you can hopefully not have to come back to that, or at least maintain a better overall state of health than when you went into the transit. So you’re about two-thirds of the way through this transit at this point, with Saturn finishing up the last year of transiting through Capricorn. So for most of you, whatever themes that are gonna be brought up by this transit have already started to happen or become very clear. And unless you have planets in very late cardinal signs, I wouldn’t necessarily expect it to culminate at this point. But instead, for the majority of you, the peak period or the most critical point in this transit may have already come and gone, and you’re just in the process of wrapping up the last phases of it at this point over the course of the next year. So certainly, because there is a Saturn-Pluto conjunction around 22 Capricorn this month in January, if you do have any planets around 22° of cardinal signs—like Capricorn, Aries, Cancer, or Libra—it could be a particularly important turning point in terms of that. And if you have a night chart, it might tend to be a little bit more difficult or coincide with a difficult episode that you have to address, especially in terms of your work or in terms of health. Whereas if you have a day chart, it might be more of a surmountable difficulty or some sort of obstacle that comes up, that you just have to deal with and address at that time. So certainly, with the Saturn-Pluto conjunction, if you have planets at 22° hitting an important turning point, this is gonna be a long-term transit that’s gonna be playing out off and on between now and December, when Saturn leaves Capricorn for the final time, and you completely finish that entire 6th house transit altogether, which will have lasted for three years at that point in time.

All right. So we’ve got those two transits. I mentioned the eclipse in Cancer. So it’s probably bringing to culmination a series of events that started six months earlier. And the 12th house is kind of, again, like the 6th house, a tricky house. Sometimes it has to do with things like enemies, traditionally, or those who—people in your life that work at cross-purposes to you. And that can be sometimes people that you just don’t get along with and relationships in your life that are problematic for you. And at this point, you might see an additional spotlight focused on some of those relationships, so that things are brought to your attention that you have to address, hopefully, for the better, or hopefully, in a constructive way so that you can air some of that out and then move forward from that point. Other times, the 12th house can have to do with instances in which we become our own worst enemy, or in which we do things that can sort of undermine us or undermine what we want to accomplish in life. So this could have been something that started six months earlier, where sometimes if we instigate a bad habit, it can sort of eventually grow and develop and turn into something that’s more significant. So during this time period, especially in January, it might be important think about if there’s any ways in which you’re doing things that might be undermining yourself in the long term and how you might make even minor changes in order to change your trajectory and send yourself in a more positive direction where you start lessening and lessening the impact of some of those bad habits, but instead, creating more constructive ones for the future.

All right. So those are the main things in January. The last thing that I wanted to mention—that kind of balances out some of these transits—is that just about a month ago, we don’t just have Saturn transiting through the 6th house, and we don’t just have Pluto transiting there, but also, Jupiter ingressed into Capricorn and will be spending pretty much the entirety of 2020 going through that sign as well, which is gonna balance out some of the more challenging or problematic health signatures that Saturn has already been bringing to that sector of your chart for the past two years. And instead, it’s gonna create a little bit more of a sense of optimism and a little bit more of a sense of growth when it comes to not just health matters, but also, potentially, work matters as well. And to some extent this might tie in a little bit with some of the transits going on with Uranus through your 10th house, where we have some sense of like innovation or even a revolution of what you thought your overall career and life direction was. And Jupiter trining that, and moving through your 6th house of work, and perhaps creating some more opportunities in terms of your workspace, whatever it is that you do for work, you might be able to open up new avenues to become more successful and more productive in terms of your day-to-day job. So that’s definitely one of the more positive potentials of that transit, in addition to the potentially positive, counterbalancing influence in terms of health. Since you’ve had Saturn going through the 6th house for two years now, that may have raised some issues. And now, with Jupiter moving through the same sign over the course of the next year, that may open up some opportunities to find solutions to problems that Saturn raised over the past two years. So perhaps finally having some sort of breakthrough in terms of some sort of health issue that you’ve been struggling with, or something that was previously difficult to solve becomes a little bit easier, or you’re able to connect with somebody that has the information or the knowledge that you need in order to overcome or deal with that issue or obstacle. So that’s one of the other positive transits or potentials of Jupiter. And we’ll see different turning points with that during the course of the year, especially when Jupiter stations retrograde and direct, which is gonna happen twice over the course of the next few months. All right. So that’s some of the major stuff in January. Just checking in on the livestream. Thanks everybody for joining us. I appreciate it. If anybody, especially any Leo risings have any questions or comments about how specific transits that I’m talking about have worked out for them so far, then please let me know in the chat. I realize it’s kind of late, but thanks everyone for joining. Yeah, thank you. All right. So let me move on to February.

All right. So moving into February, the major shift that happens, that’s notable, happens, weirdly, on the same day, which is February 16. And this is the day that Mars moves out of Sagittarius and moves into Capricorn. So it moves into your 6th house, where it joins Saturn and Jupiter and Pluto, which I was just talking about in the context of both work, as well as health. And that can be a little bit problematic because Mars can bring either a great abundance of energy, where you have to put more energy and more work into, basically, your work during that time period. So it could be a particularly stressful period at work, where you’re having to work longer hours or work harder in terms of your day job, for some reason, over the course of the next few weeks, while Mars is transiting through that sign. On the other end of the spectrum, it could be a period in which there could be greater tensions, or in which there could be conflict or potentially strife in the workplace, where sometimes the abundance of energy that Mars brings to a sector of the chart can overflow and turn into sometimes like an open conflict. So that’s something to be a little bit careful about. It can also be a challenging time where more acute-type health issues can come up, that are short-term, but still notable. So it would be good to be extra cautious during that time—as Mars is transiting through your 6th house—not to do anything impulsive, that could put you in a difficult situation where you could have like an accident or an injury. That would be my best piece of advice in terms of Mars going through the 6th house. Or like if you go to the gym, don’t overexert yourself, so that you cause yourself to have an injury just due to, you know, enthusiasm or wanting to get a good workout or what have you.

But what’s notable is that that very same day that Mars moves into Capricorn, and into your 6th house, Mercury also is stationing retrograde around that time, around February 16. And this retrograde is actually happening in Pisces. And as we can see here, Pisces is your 8th house, or your eighth whole sign house if you have Leo rising. The 8th house, typically, has two primary significations. One of them is mortality and issues surrounding mortality. The other topics in the 8th house that are pretty common are other people’s money or the resources that belong to other people, or your partner in particular. Especially if you’re in a long-term either romantic relationship or a business partnership. So Mercury going retrograde—it’s actually gonna go retrograde pretty closely conjunct Neptune. So one of the things I would be careful about is miscommunications involving financial matters, especially involving other people. So if you have any sort of financial involvement with either a partner or a romantic partner or a business partner, and you have some sort of financial exchange, just be sure that everything is clear and is written out, in as clear a language as possible, since there might be a greater tendency towards miscommunications and verbal snafus and misunderstandings during this time. If you’re signing a contract that involves financial things, you might wanna be extra careful, or you might wanna move the timeframe of signing that contract a little bit before or a little bit after, especially after this Mercury retrograde. Just because the conjunction with Neptune at the same time kind of amplifies some of the already sort of nebulous significations that Mercury retrogrades already bring anytime they go retrograde in a certain part of our chart.

You have, of course, Neptune transiting through the 8th house, which itself brings nebulousness to the sector of other people’s money or the partner’s money, which is a pretty long-term, decade-long transit. But something like a Mercury retrograde there could set off a specific incident related to that, where you have to go back and review some sort of agreement or some sort of verbal communication that involved financial matters. The 8th house also pertains to taxes and debts. So it could be something related to that as well, where you have to go back and review something that you thought was finished, but may come back into your life for some reason. So that Mercury retrograde begins on the 16th of February, the halfway point is about the 25th of February, and then it’s already finished. And what happens is it retrogrades back into Aquarius. So the retrograde starts in early Pisces, and then it goes back into Aquarius before stationing direct on March 9. So the fact that it retrogrades from your 8th house back into your 7th house of relationships may imply that there’s something about the partner’s finances or other people’s money that then gets tied into the issue of relationships and partnership in general when Mercury returns back to Aquarius and then stations direct in that sign. So this kind of emphasizes or reemphasizes the idea that this may have to do with partnership and may have to do especially with agreements between you and another person, and things perhaps becoming a little fuzzy or nebulous and perhaps leading to miscommunications that force you to have to renegotiate, or at least revisit something that you agreed on with another person.

All right. So this is taking us into March. And that’s the setup for things at the very beginning of the month, is that Mercury retrograde, which retrogrades back into your 7th house of relationships. One of the things that’s notable about that is it seems to be setting up some major transits. The Mercury retrograde seems to be setting up some major transits in the sphere of relationships that really get going later in the month. And these are two transits primarily. One of them is Saturn moving into Aquarius and starting, basically, the very beginning of a long-term, two-or-three-year transit of Saturn through your 7th house of relationships. And then about a week later, we have Mars, which moves a little bit quicker, but also ingressing or moving into your 7th house of relationships, where it will stay for like a month or so. A little over a month, a month-and-a-half. So as soon as Saturn and Mars move into Aquarius, they pretty quickly form a conjunction with each other in the first degree of Aquarius, in your 7th house, in late March and early April. So this is kind of a problematic transit. So I’m not gonna sugarcoat that too much because it kind of is what it is, but it may bring up some tumultuousness or some potential for tension in the sphere of relationships during that time.

So, at the very least, this is the start of a two-or-three-year-long transit of Saturn through your 7th house, which can be a testing period for relationships. If you’re already in a major relationship, you can go through sort of a challenging phase, where you have to evaluate that relationship and decide how it’s going, and in some instances perhaps make some adjustments in order to ensure the longevity of the relationship, and in order to ensure that you both want to stay in the relationship. So you may have to ask yourself at various points during the course of this relationship whether this is something that you still want to stay in, and if you do, whether you’re willing to put in the hard work that may be necessary to keep the relationship together and to keep it stable and vibrant. And that may be a little bit more challenging than you thought previously, or you may have to do some things or commit to some things that you might otherwise not want to, but might be necessary for the sake of the relationship itself. Saturn often has to do with not just restrictions, but also, obligations and duties and things that are kind of a chore but are kind of necessary in some instances if you want something. So what’s interesting about this transit is this is just kind of a preview of a longer-term transit that’s gonna be playing out over the course of the next three years. But Saturn just sort of dips into Aquarius and into your 7th house starting this month, starting at the end of March, but it only stays there through like the end of June or the beginning of July, and then it retrogrades back out of Aquarius and back into Capricorn, so that it can finish up the rest of that transit between July and December. Then eventually in December, Saturn will return back to Aquarius and it will stay in that sign for the next couple of years. So this creates a unique situation where what we have is sort of like a preview of a major, long-term transit that’s gonna last for quite a while. And it’s not gonna get fully underway until December, but this preview phase could set up a sequence of events, or it could raise an obstacle, so that it’s gonna become clear what some of the major themes and what some of the major challenges are over the course of the next two or three years, as Saturn returns to that sign in December. But I really think that especially with Mars ingressing into that sign—with Mars moving into Aquarius, almost simultaneously as Saturn does at the end of March—that whatever the primary difficulty is or obstacle or challenge that you have to meet and have to deal with head on, it’s gonna become very clear during the course of April. Especially early in April, when those two planets conjoin in that sign.

So for people with night charts, that might be a little bit more challenging of a long-term transit. For the people with day charts, it’s that Mars period that’s gonna be more challenging because Mars can bring up issues of strife, issues of separation, as well as just issues of irritability. So sometimes this can lead to a month-or-a-month-and-a-half-period of more strife or more fighting with a partner than you’re used to. In other instances, it can lead to separations and the desire either, on your part, to separate from a partner or on a partner’s part to separate from you if things are not going well. So certainly, part of the advice is just be careful not to do anything impulsively or anything that you don’t want to have long-term ramifications. If you’re just saying something unthinkingly, or if you’re just becoming irritable one day and creating problems with your partner, it could have longer-term ramifications than just being some low-level fight because of the significance of Saturn transiting into that sign at the same time. So those are sort of two things I would watch out for in terms of Saturn and Mars ingressing into that sign and what some of the dominant energies are going to be starting in late March and for most of April.

So in terms of April, those two transits are still right in the middle of that. In terms of outer planets, there is a Jupiter-Pluto conjunction that’s taking place in Capricorn at that time, in your 6th house. This could indicate a period of like rapid expansion in terms of your work or in terms of something that you’re working on in terms of your health, and potentially making rapid progress in terms of that. But you also have to be a little bit careful not to go too far because Jupiter-Pluto combinations can tend towards extremes or tend towards extremism. So Jupiter already likes to expand rapidly, and Pluto just likes to amplify anything it’s touching. So amplifying your efforts in the 6th house—related to work or health—could be the signature of that, and that could be something good or something bad. But you may wanna be a little bit careful to urge moderation during the course of early April when that conjunction is going exact. Other than that, there’s just normal lunations and inner planet ingresses during that time. Pluto stations retrograde in Capricorn later in the month, but that’s really just intensifying the Jupiter transit for the most part, so I think we can move on to May.

All right. So here’s the astrology of May. One of the things that’s happening is Saturn is stationing retrograde in Aquarius on May 11, and this is gonna indicate an intensification of what that Saturn transit through your 7th house of relationships is all about. So this is the first station of Saturn in Aquarius. Although, Saturn kind of opened up the three-year transit through your relationship sector when it moved into Aquarius at the end of March, this is one of the first times where Saturn is slowing down and stationing in that sign. And if anybody, if any of you have planetary placements in your birth chart in the early degrees of the fixed signs, then that Saturn station is gonna be squaring them or hitting them through a hard aspect and really probably telling you a lot about what the next few years of that transit are gonna be about, for better or worse. So best-case scenario, it’s gonna be about craving some long-term structures and creating some new structures in the area of relationships and how you relate to other people, and how you differentiate yourself from those that you’re close to in your life in general. The worst-case scenario is that that sense of differentiation and exclusion may lead you to sort of reject some relationships or determine that there’s some relationships that aren’t as important to you as you thought they used to be and sort of making a decision to go it alone and to not focus on relationships as much can be one manifestation of a Saturn transit through the 7th house, and deciding to work more on yourself and sometimes less on your relationships due to that opposition between Saturn going through the 7th and opposing the 1st. So if that’s one of the manifestations, or whatever the manifestation is of Saturn through your 7th, this important turning point—when Saturn stations retrograde—is gonna be one of the first real pivotal moments where you get a sense for what that overall, three-year transit is gonna be like, especially if you have planets in early fixed signs.

Interestingly, a few days after that, Mars actually completes its transit through Aquarius and leaves your 7th house of relationships on May 13, and it moves into Pisces, which is your 8th house of shared resources. So this can put greater focus or emphasis or energy towards shared-resource-type issues, or resources that you share with a partner during this time, for about a month or so, month-and-a-half. It can also bring challenges or difficulties or strife involving other people’s money or financial assets, which can be a little bit tricky or a little bit problematic when it comes to financial matters. Weirdly, like right around the same time, Venus is stationing retrograde in Gemini, which is your 11th house of friendship. And sometimes Venus can cause you to—a Venus retrograde can cause you to reexamine relationships in your life. In this context, it would especially be within the context of friendships. So getting a sense for whether certain friendships are working out for you, or whether there is an imbalance in the relationship that isn’t really suiting you, either that’s coming from you or coming from them. In other instances, it can be old friends coming back into your life and reestablishing friendships, or even developing a new friendship that comes into your life, in a way that’s notable and in a way that changes things in a significant way. One of the things to be a little bit careful about is that the Venus retrograde station is gonna station pretty closely square Neptune in Pisces. So it has a bit of a ‘Venus square Neptune’ vibe to that retrograde, which could be a little problematic if there’s any connection between your friendships and financial matters, especially when it comes to issues of like debt or loans or like giving a loan to a friend or something like that. While I wouldn’t necessarily tell you not to do that if you have to like loan a friend money. In some instances, it might be best to—if you can’t be careful about that because of issues surrounding nebulousness or miscommunication, you might want to at least not be attached to it so much if you never got the loan repaid to a friend. But instead, if there was some sort of miscommunication or loss of money, then maybe it would be best to be sort of okay with that ahead of time, rather than really expecting to have a very clear transaction. So it’s a little difficult to describe. But basically, just having a connection between the 11th house of friends and the 8th house of other people’s money, and having a nebulous planet like Neptune involved, just sounds a little bit tricky, and sounds like it could be problematic in terms of establishing clear boundaries and clear agreements between those two parties or those two parts of your life. So maybe you just expect things to be a little bit weird. And as long as you’re okay with that, it doesn’t necessarily have to be a major issue or a big deal. So that Venus retrograde begins on the 13th. Around the same time, Jupiter is stationing in Capricorn. It’s stationing retrograde. So that’s just a continuation of some of the developments with respect to your work or with respect to health issues that you were focused on over the course of the year. And hopefully, especially if you have a day chart, some positive developments are happening in that area and some rectifying of issues that had perhaps been a little bit challenging over the previous two years. Those are the major things that are happening most of May. Venus’ retrograde in Gemini, in your 11th house, for the rest of the month.

The halfway point in the Venus retrograde is the Sun-Venus conjunction on the 3rd of June. And at this point, about halfway into the year, we start getting into eclipse season again. So this is actually gonna start off with a lunar eclipse in Sagittarius, in your 5th house. And the 5th house, traditionally, pertains to things like children, if you have any children, or if there is any role that the general topic of children plays in your life. But also, other topics like creativity, pleasures in general or what you do for fun, as well as sexual matters is a main 5th house topic. So what’s happening here is since this is a lunar eclipse, it’s kind of shining a spotlight or drawing attention towards the 5th house in a way that’s unique or stands out in some way. So for those of you that have children, this may draw greater attention towards children in your life for some reason, for better or worse. For some people that don’t have children, one of the things that’s notable is this is the first of a sequence of eclipses that are gonna start bouncing back and forth between your 5th house of children and your 11th house of friendship over the course of the next year-and-a-half because the nodes have actually moved or are moving at this point into Sagittarius and Gemini. So you could see the topic of children or other 5th house topics starting to become much more prominent in your life over the course of the next year. It sort of begins with this eclipse, but especially in December, we’ll more fully move into that eclipse cycle once we completely finish out the Cancer/Capricorn eclipses. But for this one at least, yeah, starting to expect more focus on 5th house matters would be a pretty standard thing.

All right. So that eclipse starts the month. Greater focus on children, possibly having fun, or just enjoyment in what you do for fun in general as a general theme and topic. Later in the month, or mid-month, in June, Mercury stations retrograde in Cancer. Cancer being your 12th house. And it is retrograde for the next three weeks. That’s important, but it’s also connected with a solar eclipse, which takes place on the 21st of June, which is also in Cancer. And then, finally, Venus stations direct on the 25th of the month, completing the entire Venus retrograde period. So the New Moon solar eclipse that’s happening in Cancer, combined with the Mercury retrograde—both of which are in your 12th house—seem to imply some sort of focus on the topic of endings. So the 12th house is the last of the 12 houses. And oftentimes, when we have things that are taking place in the 12th house, it can have to do with bringing something to completion or letting go of something. And this is one of the reasons why the 12th house was traditionally associated with things like loss because the 12th house is representing the sort of end of the cycle, where you’re giving something up in preparation for moving into a new phase, or moving into a new sort of sequence of your life. Now with the solar eclipse there, again, it’s been bouncing back and forth in that 6th house and 12th house axis for about a year-and-a-half at this point, and this is one of the last major eclipses that’s gonna take place at least in this sign. This sign, as well as Capricorn. So this may be bringing up some themes that we were talking about earlier in the year that have to do with questions of not just bringing attention to what your relationship is with people that you don’t get along with in your life, but also, ways in which sometimes you might be your own worst enemy or might undermine yourself in different ways.

And what’s important about this solar eclipse is that it’s gonna set up or open up a six-month chapter in your life where you might have an opportunity to instigate some new actions or instigate some new attitudes in that area, that could have a longer-term impact over the course of the next six months. So if there’s some sort of opportunity to address a relationship in your life, where you’re not getting along with somebody, or where you’re really, let’s say, like butting heads with somebody, or really coming even to blows with somebody, it might be important to establish the boundaries of that relationship very early on, around the time of this eclipse because whatever boundaries you do or don’t establish are gonna persist for several months after this point. So if you don’t establish good boundaries with that person, or in some instances, even stand up for yourself in some way, you may be opening yourself up to larger problems down the line. So that happens or pertains to both external issues with people you don’t get along with in your life, as well as instances where you have any bad habits. If there’s some sort of new bad habit that develops at this time, you might wanna be careful to try to curb it early on and address it early on. Otherwise, it could grow and develop into something more significant over the course of the next six months. So those are the two primary topics I would watch for and pay attention to in that area. And to some extent, issues, or both of those topics, but especially the one with enemies or people that you don’t get along with could get exacerbated by the Mercury retrograde. Because sometimes one of the reasons that we run into issues with other people or ‘enemies’ are created can be simply due to misunderstandings or miscommunications. So be careful during this Mercury retrograde—which starts and lasts for three weeks, and starts on the 18th of June—to be clear in your communications because sometimes you might inadvertently make somebody upset with you or turn somebody against you simply due to a misunderstanding. And that’s one of the pieces of advice that I’d just be a little bit wary about in terms of that transit.

All right. So that’s not the last, major transit that’s happening in June. In fact, one of the other major transits that happens, that opens up a few-month time period is on the 27th of June, Mars ingresses into Aries. And normally, this would just be like a one-month transit. But what happens is that Mars moves into Aries in late June, and then it starts slowing down and then eventually stations retrograde later in that sign, or towards the very end of that sign in September. And then it’s retrograde for a while, eventually stations direct, and doesn’t get fully out of Aries until early next year. So this is beginning a transit that will basically last for the entirety of the second half of this year, when Mars moves into Aries on the 27th of June. So Aries is your 9th house. And the 9th house traditionally has to do with—it’s kind of a packed house that deals with a few different categories. But one of the things that it has to do with is education, especially educational things that are preparatory or will lead you towards whatever your career or your overall life direction is, and sometimes a Mars transit can lead to greater energy or greater energy expenditure in that area. Other times, the 9th house has to do with your religion or your belief system, whatever that is, or the things that you believe about how the world works. And then, finally, the 9th house can also have to do with travel, especially foreign travel and exposure to foreign cultures and foreign ideas.

So what’s a little bit problematic about this Mars transit—especially if you have a day chart—is it could bring some strife or some potential for conflict in this area of your life. So if you were to take, for example, like a major trip, there could be some frustrations or some tensions involving that trip. Alternatively, if you’re starting a course of study, there could be some tensions or some sort of drama surrounding your educational pursuits at this time. So maybe you have to like drop a course if you’re in college, or something like that, due to some sort of unexplained or inexplicable tension that comes up over the course of that few-month period. Whatever it is, it may be something that under normal circumstances would just come and go and be a minor thing, but for some reason gets extended and gets drawn out just a little bit longer than it should otherwise because Mars is moving so slow during this time. And if it’s aspecting any personal planets in your birth chart, it’s gonna be doing so for a much longer, much more extended period of time than normal, which could be kind of aggravating or could be kind of taxing. The last thing that might be worth mentioning—just in terms of the 9th house and its connection with religion and belief systems—is that sometimes a Mars transit through the 9th, or a retrograde in the 9th, can indicate becoming upset or having some sort of separation or some sort of strife when it comes to your beliefs during this time, or even something like a crisis of faith. So that’s a little bit more common for something like a Saturn transit, which takes two or three years to go through the 9th house. And I know some of the Taurus rising people have been dealing with it over the past few years, as Capricorn—as Saturn has been going through Capricorn, their 9th house. But something like this could be a short-term or a relatively short-term conflict with somebody that’s based on either ideological or even like political or theological grounds, and getting into conflict over your beliefs and what your different viewpoints are concerning the world at large or the world in general. So it’s something to be aware of as you’re dealing with this. It is creating a little bit of tension because what happens is that Saturn retrogrades back into Capricorn around this time, into your 6th house of work and health, and Mars, actually, when it stations retrograde in September, will be squaring that. So it could be creating some tension between your 9th house of belief and education and travel and your 6th house of work and health matters, so it might be important to be careful about potential tensions in that area. But I might be jumping ahead a little bit, since that’s really more of a September thing, when Mars actually stations.

All right. So those are the transits for June, especially kicking off that Mars ingress into Aries, which is queuing us up for the retrograde period. Here’s the transits for July, where we can see right at the start Saturn retrogrades out of your 7th house of relationships and it goes back into your 6th house of work and health. So you’re basically beginning the final stretch of that transit, which will last from July through mid-to-late-December. And Saturn returning back to your 6th house is basically gonna be making sure that you got the point of whatever that transit was about and sometimes bringing those topics back to the forefront in your life again one last time. So this is kind of reemphasized by the eclipse, the lunar eclipse that’s taking place in Capricorn around the 5th of the month, the 5th of July, which, again, is just putting extra focus or an extra spotlight on that area of health matters or matters pertaining to work. And not long after that Mercury eventually stations direct on the 14th—or on the 12th of July and finishes up its transit through your 12th house, or at least finishes up the retrograde transit. But really, most of this month is definitely dominated by Saturn returning back to the 6th house and then there being an eclipse in the same sign.

All right. So this is taking us forward, finally, into July. All right. So July transits. July’s not a major month in terms of outer—oh, sorry, not July, but August is not a major month in terms of outer planet transits. The main thing that’s happening, that’s notable, is just the Uranus station because Uranus gets to about 10° of Taurus, and then it stations retrograde. So this is the furthest that Uranus has gotten into Taurus, like I was talking about earlier in the year. So if you have any planets around 10° of fixed signs, this is gonna be a period where some of not just the rebelliousness, but some of the significations of disruption and unexpected shakeups are gonna become particularly intense. This is primarily gonna relate to your career and overall life direction because Uranus is transiting through your 10th house. Although, anytime we have a planet transiting through the 10th house, it often will start making hard aspects with, for example, the degree of the ascendant, especially if your ascendant is around the tenth degree of Taurus. It will start aspecting the descendant, or the degree of the descendant at some point, which represents relationships. And it’ll also start opposing your 4th house. So while this Uranus station might be primarily important or primarily related to career in terms of what it’s doing as it’s transiting through your chart, it may also be indicating some major changes in terms of your sense of self, which could indicate things like your appearance or your bodily and physical vitality, as well as your character or just how you present yourself, and how you come off and what sort of character traits you cultivate as a person, with Uranus squaring your ascendant. It’s also gonna cause some major changes with respect to relationships, some of which might be somewhat unexpected or somewhat disruptive, which is kind of echoing some of the stuff we were talking about earlier this year with Saturn starting to move through that sign. And then, finally, some of the career changes with Uranus in the 10th may be causing disruptions in terms of your private life and your home and your living situation, or potentially, your parents. Because the Uranus transit will be opposed to the 4th house and any planets that may or may not be in your 4th house, or if you have the degree of the IC there. So I wanted to mention that because that’s two—that’s one of two Uranus stations this year that are probably just gonna be important turning points. As we get further and further into that transit, some of the major changes that it represents in your life are gonna become clearer and clearer. And for those of you with planets around 10° of fixed signs, I think that’s gonna become particularly notable around this time in mid-August.

So those are the major transits that are happening in August. And at this point we move to September where the primary thing that’s happening, and the most important thing that is happening, is Mars stationing retrograde in late Aries on the 9th of September. So, again, this just is the most—it’s one of two stations of Mars. But it’s the one that’s probably more—or the most important one because it’s setting up some of the primary tensions, or potentially, primarily conflict in your 9th house of education and travel and belief. And at the same time, it’s also gonna be squaring Saturn from late Aries to late Capricorn and indicating probably some of the peak of tensions between those two areas of your chart, in the 9th house of like belief and travel and education and the 6th house of health matters, as well as your workplace or whatever it is that you do for work, and the potential for some conflict in those areas, especially if you have planets in the late degrees of the cardinal signs. So around this time, Jupiter is stationing direct in Capricorn, around the 12th of September, which, hopefully, will help balance things out, or have some alleviation, some positive counterbalancing influence in the 6th house to not fully outweigh Mars, but at least indicate that there’s some sort of positive rectification of difficult events, even if there are still tensions in that area of your life. And then, finally, at the end of the month, we have Saturn making its final direct station in Capricorn before it moves out of that sign completely, during this 30-year Saturn cycle. So whatever the final lesson is of Saturn transiting through Capricorn—especially if you have something important in Capricorn natally, like your natal Saturn placement—this will be the final turning point, or the final-most, pivotal turning point of your Saturn return, when Saturn makes its final station there and then eventually starts moving forward again and departs from Capricorn completely in December.

All right. So those are the transits for September. That takes us forward to October. All right. So in October, we’ve got lunations. The main thing is there’s a Mercury retrograde this month that starts in Scorpio and moves back to Libra. So we can see that here, the stationary point. Let me throw up the actual chart. Because this one has some interesting degrees that are gonna be notable for some of you and are worth memorizing or mentioning. So here’s the chart, and we see Mercury slowing down in Scorpio, and then it stops at 11° of Scorpio. And Scorpio is your 4th house of your home and your living situation, and sometimes, the parents. And Mercury then stations retrograde there for the next three years. And one of the things that’s important to note here is notice how it’s opposing Uranus when it stations retrograde. So it’s setting up some sort of tension between the unexpected developments and the disruptions that are happening in the career sphere, but then Mercury goes retrograde in your 4th house of your home and living situation, which could cause either a revisiting of something related to your living situation or a miscommunication involving something related to your living situation, or potentially, your parents or your private life. But it’s creating this weird tension between the public life, as represented by Uranus going through the 10th house, and the 4th house, as representing the private life. Although it starts off in Scorpio, Mercury eventually retrogrades back into Libra by the end of the month and then stations direct there, in your 3rd house. So the 3rd house represents siblings, extended family, but also represents things like your neighborhood, the way that you communicate, and the way that you travel, especially locally. So having a Mercury retrograde there can be indicative of miscommunications, indicative of having to revisit things from a few weeks earlier. So things that first came up earlier in October that you thought were finished. It’s also connecting the 4th house of the parents and the 3rd house of siblings. So it could be a miscommunication that somehow connects or bridges the gap between those two areas of your life and involves those two separate parts of your family for some reason. So the main piece of advice is just to be extra careful in terms of communication, or if you are signing a contract, for example, involving a 4th house party. So involving either your parents or involving your living situation, like if you were moving into a new place. Or if somehow your siblings or other extended relatives were connected with your living situation, attempt to avoid miscommunications during that time because it could lead to general snafus and additional hassles that might otherwise be somewhat unnecessary.

So the Mercury retrograde in October is really the main thing that stands out as being a sort of significant or notable transit that’s gonna be ongoing for a few weeks. For about three weeks at that point. This eventually takes us through into November. Mercury stations direct on the 3rd of November. And more notably, Mars stations direct on the 13th of November, finally, in Aries. So I wanna pull that up in the chart really quickly to show you the specific degrees. So Mars we can see slowing down and stationing at about 15° of Aries, around the 14th of November. So this is the tail-end of the retrograde period, and it’s when some of the conflict or some of the difficulties that started back in September—or at least culminated back in September—eventually start to be brought to some sort of resolution by this time. So these could involve like educational issues. It could involve a trip or travel, or some sort of interaction with a foreign culture or a foreign country, which are common 9th house activities. Or it could simply have to do with some sort of conflict that’s based on like ideological or political or religious grounds for you in terms of your background and your life in general. But it’s really got this most active period between September, when the retrograde station first happened, and then mid-November, when it finally stations direct.

Elsewhere in November, at the very end of the month, we have the next set of eclipses, and we start the final eclipse season of the year, starting with a lunar eclipse, which is taking place in Gemini on the 30th of the month. So Gemini is your 11th house. So it’s bringing greater focus and attention towards the sphere of friendships and the role of friendship in your life in general is a broader theme, but also, sometimes group efforts or how you relate to groups of people, which can sometimes involve things like organizations. It can involve volunteering with groups and doing things based around a shared ideology or a shared belief system that unites you with larger masses of people. One of the traditional associations that the 11th house has always had is hopes and wishes because the 11th house and planets in the 11th are sort of rising up to the 10th and hoping or aspiring to achieve something at the top of the chart. So this is setting up a series of eclipses that are gonna keep bouncing back and forth between your 11th and your 5th houses. And during that time, the topic of friendship over the next year will probably become more important to you, either because there’s a specific friend whose life becomes more intertwined with your own, or because, for some reason, you just end up being more involved in your friends’ lives than you normally are. And it’s gonna keep happening in these six-month increments. So starting with this eclipse, and then six months forward, we’ll see another set of eclipses in the same sign. But just know that whatever starts at this point in your life—around late November or early December, related to friends—what may seem like a small event at first, or a small development in your life could have much larger, long-term implications and ramifications than you realize at the time.

So this finally brings us to December. And there’s two major things we need to mention about December—cuz this is actually one of the biggest months of 2020—and it happens right at the end of the year. The first thing I need to mention is the second eclipse, which is a solar eclipse that’s gonna take place on December 14 in the sign of Sagittarius. So this is activating that other house in the pair that I was just talking about, which is the house that’s opposite to the 11th house, which is the 5th house of children and creativity and pleasures and sex and other topics like that. But for some reason, this house is being activated again, and it’s setting some sort of foundation or creating the seeds of something that is gonna grow and develop over the next six months. So for some people, this can be something related to the topic of children in their life. You could maybe have children, or you could enter into a new phase of your child’s life, or a new phase in the relationship with your children at this time, that’s somehow notable or distinct and more important than at other points in your life. Cuz eclipses usually represent major bookmarks where a whole new chapter begins, or, in some instances, where a chapter ends. Because eclipses are—my keyword for eclipses usually is that they represent great beginnings and great endings.

So that’s not the most important transit, though, that’s happening this month. But instead, the most important transits happen later, starting on the 17th, just a few days after that eclipse, when Saturn completes its three-year transit through Capricorn and through your 6th house of work and health. And Saturn moves into Aquarius, which is your 7th house of relationships, where it’s gonna stay for the next couple of years. Just two days later, Jupiter joins it by moving into Aquarius, also, into your 7th house. And then on the 21st, those two planets meet up and form a very rare, 20-year conjunction in the very first degree of Aquarius, in your 7th house of relationships. So I talked about this transit a little bit earlier because we had a preview of what this should be like between March and June, when Saturn first dipped into Aquarius and then retrograded back out of it. And during that time, that should have brought up some potential issues or potential difficulties that could have arisen in the sphere of relationships and shown you some areas that perhaps you need to work on, where things might not be flowing as smoothly in the sphere of relationships as you thought up to this point. Or at least could be forcing you to deal with some issues that maybe you’ve been putting to the side and not fully addressing in previous years. So the downside or the difficult point of this transit is that over the next two years, you’re gonna be forced to deal with those issues head on, and you may not have a choice but to sort of work on them to some extent, especially if you’re in a relationship and you’d like to maintain it.

The good news is that this transit starts with Jupiter also moving into that sign and spending the first full year of Saturn in Aquarius, moving through Aquarius with Saturn. So Jupiter’s gonna be balancing things out. And while there will be some soberness and some sense of reflection with Saturn moving through your 7th house, Jupiter’s also gonna balance it with some sense of optimism and some sense of stability. So while there may be pulling back in some relationships, there may be a sort of growth and development and expansion in others. So maybe these are different relationships that are happening. Maybe this is happening in the same relationship where some things aren’t going as well, but other things are going well in order to balance things out. But, either way, I feel like it’s a somewhat optimistic or somewhat positive start to that transit of Saturn through your 7th house to have Jupiter there balancing things out at the same time, at least for the first year. Eventually, after this year, Jupiter will leave that sign and move into Pisces. And Saturn will still be moving through Aquarius only about two-thirds of the way through that transit, and then it’ll be like the last planet moving through that sign. But that’s a really notable thing for you and seems to represent a major development at the very end of the year, with respect to the topic of relationships, having such a rare, 20-year conjunction of those two planets—the two largest planets in our solar system besides the Sun itself—taking taking place in the 7th house of relationships. And it seems to promise that by the end of 2020, relationships are not just the focus, but there’s some sort of critical turning point, or a pivotal turning point that occurs in December of that year and sets up a whole series of events that will be playing out during the course of 2021. So, you know, for some people, that’ll be more challenging. For others, it’ll be more positive. But, either way, in either instance, it seems to indicate that relationships will soon be a major focus of your life, even more than they have been in previous years.

So those are the major transits. And I believe that brings us to the end of 2020. Let me take a look. Yeah, there’s no other major things that I meant to mention in terms of December. Because it basically just ends with that Jupiter-Saturn conjunction and then that’s it. All right. Let me take a look at the livestream. How are things going? Does anybody have any questions—as we’re getting to the end of this—in the livestream? We’ve got 84 people joining the livestream. Thanks everyone for joining me tonight. I appreciate it. So while I’m waiting for questions, let me—there were a few things that I meant to mention. So the artwork that I’ve been using for this video, and for this podcast, is coming from the calendar that I released, the posters that I released, which are the Planetary Alignments Poster, the Planetary Movements Poster, and the Significations of the Houses Poster. So with these you can sort of put them up on a wall and then be able to see when some of the different transits—that I mentioned during the course of this episode—start and end just at a glance by looking at it. So you can find out more information about those posters at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2020Posters. Leisa Schaim and I also just released the 2020 Auspicious Elections Full Year Ahead Electional Report, where we went through and we picked out one lucky date for each of the next 12 months for starting different types of ventures and undertakings using the principles of electional astrology. So you can find out more information about that at ChrisBrennanAstrologer.com/2020Elections.

And, finally, I have to say thanks to all the patrons who supported the production of this episode of the podcast, cuz they’re the reason we’re able to get some of the equipment that I’m using to do this livestream. Thanks in particular to patrons Christine Stone, Nate Craddock, and Tanner Robinson, as well as the Astro Gold Astrology App, available at Astrogold.io, the Portland School of Astrology, at PortlandAstrology.org, the Honeycomb Collective Personal Astrological Almanacs, at Honeycomb.co. And there’s two major astrology conferences happening in 2020. One of them is hosted by the International Society for Astrological Research, which is having a conference in September of 2020—you can find out more information about that at ISAR2020.org—and the Northwest Astrological Conference, which is happening in Seattle, from May 21-25, 2020, which you can find out more information about at NORWAC.net. So if you wanna become a patron and get access to bonus content, like early access to new episodes or other things like that, find out more information at Patreon.com/TheAstrologyPodcast.

All right. I think that is it for this livestream. So good luck to all the Leo rising people during the course of 2020. So some people are asking about specific chart placements, but I can’t necessarily get into that. One guy’s waiting for their Honeycomb Almanac. Awesome. I think you’ll really enjoy it. A lot of the podcast listeners have been getting those and posting them on Twitter and Facebook, which has been cool to see. I really enjoy it, cuz it’s nice being able to follow your exact transits. Here, we’ve done kind of an overview of your transits, whereas Honeycomb is useful for finding and tracking some of the exact ones, which is a lot of fun, and is very useful during the course of the year. I don’t do chart readings. But on my consulting site, I link to other astrologers that do. Right now, I recommend people just because I’m too busy doing the podcast to do individual consultations at this time. All right. Thanks everyone for joining me tonight. I think that’s it for this video. So I think I’m gonna—we had a delay today due to my internet being out, so I wasn’t able to record as many horoscopes as I wanted to. But I’m hoping to be back in the morning to resume with the rising sign horoscopes. Virgo rising is the next one that I’ll do starting tomorrow, first thing in the morning. So I’ll see everybody tomorrow. In the meantime, good luck to all the Leo rising people. Have great transits this year, and let me know how it goes in the comments section below. If you’ve already had some of these transits that have matched certain things in your life, then let me know, and share some of those stories in the comments section below. Cuz it’s always good to share stories like that and learn how some of these archetypes manifest in more specific ways in a person’s life. All right. Good luck, and enjoy the astrology of 2020. And I will see you guys again tomorrow.

VIRGO AND VIRGO RISING

CB: Hey, how’s it going? My name is Chris Brennan, from The Astrology Podcast, and this is your horoscope for the year of 2020 for those with Virgo and Virgo rising. So over the course of the next 40 minutes to an hour, I’m gonna go through the major planetary alignments and transits that are going through your birth chart over the course of the next 12 months. So I’m primarily dedicating or focusing here on those that have Virgo rising. Although, to a lesser extent, you can also look at this from the perspective of your Sun sign, especially if you were born during the day and your Sun, in your birth chart, is in the sign of Virgo, or if you were born at night, especially if your Moon was located in the sign of Virgo, in a night chart. But for the most part, we’re gonna be focusing here on the rising sign.

All right. So why don’t we jump right into it. And thanks to everybody who’s joining us in the live chat. Thanks, June. Welcome back. Yeah, we’re about halfway through at this point. I’ll try to stay hydrated. So let’s throw up some of the artwork for this month. First, I’m gonna be going back and forth and looking at the Planetary Movements Calendar, which is a poster that I printed up this year, that shows where the planets will start at the beginning of the year and how far through the zodiac they’ll get by the end of the year, which is helpful for visualizing how some of the inner planets move relatively quickly, like Mercury, and will do a complete lap around the signs of the zodiac, whereas some of the outer planets, like Saturn or Jupiter, or especially Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, move relatively slowly and will only move part of the way through one sign of the zodiac over the course of the next 12 months. So I’m gonna be emphasizing a lot what houses the planets are moving through in your birth chart relative to your rising sign of Virgo. So that’s one of the reasons why I really emphasize looking at my horoscopes from the perspective of the rising sign primarily. If you don’t know your rising sign, you can get that from a website like Astro.com. So just type in www.Astro.com, find their free birth chart selection calculator, enter in your birth date, time, and place, and then it’ll tell you what your ascendant or your rising sign is, and then you’ll know which of these horoscopes to look for.

So I’m streaming this live. I’ve been streaming all of them live this week. They’re taking about an hour each. And once I’m finished with this one, I’ll be halfway through. But just look through the playlist, and you should be able to find the one for your rising sign by the time I’m done at the end of this week. All right. The other artwork I’m gonna be looking at is the Planetary Movements Calendar. Sorry, the Planetary Alignments Calendar, which shows when planets move into different signs of the zodiac, when the New Moons and Full Moons and eclipses take place each month, and also, when specific planets station retrograde or direct, especially the Mercury retrogrades. So this’ll be a good starting point, especially this month, because we’re gonna start with January and sort of work our way forward month by month.

All right. So let’s do sort of a big-picture overview to start. There’s three major outer planet-type or major astronomical alignments that are happening in January. One of them is there is an eclipse. It’s a lunar eclipse that’s taking place on the 10th of the month in the sign of Cancer, which for those of you who have Virgo rising—that’s your 11th house of friends. So a lunar eclipse usually represents a culmination of events and something that’s been building up for at least six months now. Some new venture or some new development in your life with respect to the general theme of friends and groups reaching a sort of culmination at this time. So eclipses have a six-month activity or a six-month time window. So while sometimes there are events that start to become clear or start to become noticeable right away, after the eclipse, or around the time of the eclipse, the impact of this is really gonna last for the next six months. So it may not be something that necessarily all happens at once, but could be something where there’s kind of like a process. But what’s important is just realizing that it’s a sort of culmination of events, or something is becoming mature. Some themes and some sort of trends in your life are becoming mature with respect to the topic of friends and your relationship with your friends at this time in your life. And that could be a positive thing or that could be a negative thing. We’re gonna return back to that later in the year. Because I know there’s gonna be a Mercury retrograde in Cancer and some other notable stuff going on, so maybe I’ll save that for a little bit later.

Elsewhere in the month of January, right around the same time, right before the eclipse, we have Uranus stationing direct in early Taurus, I believe, at 2° of Taurus. And this is in your 9th house. So the 9th house is the place of education, philosophy, religion, your belief systems, but it also can pertain to things like travel and foreign places or exposure to foreign people. Basically, just the general theme or archetype of that which is foreign or different from what you grew up with or where you started in your life. So a Uranus transit through the 9th house—and this is a long-term transit. This is taking place over the greater part of a decade. It’s something that started fully going about a year ago, year-and-a-half ago, when Uranus first started dipping into the sign of Taurus. But now that you’re a year into it, I think this year Uranus is gonna get as far as 10° of Aries—or 10° of Taurus later in the year before it stations retrograde. So we’re getting, in 2020, about a third of the way into this overall transit. Or at least it’s making it a third of the way through the sign of Taurus and into your ninth whole sign house.

So Uranus through the 9th house can sometimes introduce and sometimes disrupt our belief systems and our views about how the world works. And sometimes there can be a kind of curve ball that comes out of nowhere, that shakes up your belief system or introduces something that seems new and alternative and somewhat exciting to you. Other times, this can lead you down a unique educational path, or it can change or disrupt whatever your current educational path is. But this is often something that’s positive or useful in the long term because it’s preparatory for Uranus making its way to your 10th house eventually, when it moves into Gemini later in this decade. And then a lot of the emphasis and the focus will shift towards your career and your overall life direction with respect to that transit. So this is kind of a preparatory phase where it may be a period of exploration of things that are foreign or different, that have an impact, especially in terms of your belief and your overall philosophy of life. Yeah, so that’s a station. It may or may not be important for you. It really depends on if you have any planets around 2° of the fixed signs. Especially 2° of Taurus, but also, to a lesser extent, 2° of Aquarius, Leo, or Scorpio, cuz that’s about where Uranus is stationing. Let me throw up the chart just to double-check those degrees. So this is the chart for the moment, here in Denver. Let me switch this over to Virgo rising, so we can look at it from the perspective of your whole sign houses. And yeah, there’s Uranus stationing at 2° of Taurus. So while it’s going through your 9th house no matter what, if you have Virgo rising, it’s gonna be more important. The station, around the time of the eclipse here in January, will be more important for those of you that placements in your birth chart at 2° of the fixed signs. If you don’t, it may not otherwise be a major thing that’s notable. Although, later in the year, when Uranus stations at 10, if you have anything at 10° of fixed signs, that could be more crucial or more important for you.

All right. So that’s one of the other big transits this month. The other major stuff that’s going on is there’s a Saturn-Pluto conjunction happening in Capricorn. And this is part of an overall Saturn transit through Capricorn that’s been going on for two years at this point, and we also have Jupiter transiting through the same sign of Capricorn this year. So there’s a ton of activity taking place in Capricorn. Some of this is long-term stuff that you’ve been dealing with for some time. It’s going through your 5th house. The 5th house—one of the primary things that comes up is it has to do with the topic of children, either your own children, if you have any, or just the general topic of children or people that are younger than you, in your life in general. The 5th house also pertains to things like creativity and what you do to express yourself in your life, if you have any modes of expression or creativity. It can also be the house that has to do with pleasure or what you do for fun, which is kind of tricky because of Saturn going through that sign right now, which can be not a fun transit or not a fun planet. And finally, the 5th house also has to do with sex and is sort of connected with procreation, but also, just the general topic of sex and sexuality in general.

So Saturn transiting through that sign—that’s been happening for two years now, and it can bring a greater sense of seriousness, of responsibility, and sometimes obstacles or difficulties in this area of your life. That’s especially true for those of you with night charts because Saturn transits tend to be a little bit more challenging for people with night charts. And it may have even indicated a period where there were some major obstacles or set backs or difficulties for you as Saturn has been transiting through that sign. So for some of you, if you have planets around 22° of cardinal signs—especially 22° of Capricorn—there could be an intensification of that transit happening this month when we have the exact Saturn-Pluto conjunction at 22 Capricorn. The good news, however, is that Jupiter this year—for most of the past two years, you’ve just been dealing with Saturn going through that sign and being kind of heavy and being kind of sort of depressing in some ways in that part of your life, in what is otherwise a positive house. But the good news is that this year, Jupiter is also transiting through that sign and is balancing things out a little bit and bringing a little bit more optimism and a little bit more of a sense of hope and expansion to balance out the contraction and whatever the opposite of hope is from Saturn’s standpoint. So Jupiter will be transiting through that sign most of the year. It’s not hitting any important points this month, but I know it will form some conjunctions with different planets, and it will station at different points, which should be sort of like exclamation marks during the course of the year. But I wanted to mention those because that’s kind of part of the backdrop of what’s happening for this entire year. A large part of it is just Jupiter and Saturn and Pluto transiting through your 5th house, and then at certain points Mars will move in there as well, causing even more attention and focus, potentially, on that area of your life.

All right. So those are the major things for January. Let’s move on to the following month. Let me check out the live chat. Oh, okay. There’s a lot of people here. Thanks everyone for joining me today. I appreciate it. If anybody has any interesting anecdotes, especially if you have Virgo rising, let me know if there’s any Virgo rising people here in the chat. But if you have any interesting anecdotes about how any of these transits have manifested in your life so far, definitely let me know. So somebody’s asking—Sherry’s asking: “Should I follow the Placidus house chart or the whole sign house chart? Isn’t Placidus more precise as far as transits?” I would recommend using both, but I think whole sign houses should be your baseline for seeing what planets are transiting certain houses. And once you have that baseline with whole sign houses, if you then want to incorporate or integrate another house system, like Placidus, on top of that, then I think you can get more information. But I think it is really helpful to start with whole sign as the basic backdrop because that is gonna give you—especially when looking at things from more the perspective of like concrete, external events, I think you’re gonna fine whole sign houses will tend to be a little bit more accurate or more important from that perspective.

All right. So let’s move on to February. So February—there’s two things that happen. And what’s weird is they happen on the same day, and it’s right around February 16. The first thing that happens is that Mars moves out of Sagittarius. So up to this point, it’s been going through Sagittarius, which is your 4th house, or your fourth whole sign house, which has to do with the home and the family and the living situation. So that can be a period in which you’re either putting more energy towards your home and living situation or in which there’s some tensions surrounding your home or your family or your private life from the beginning of January all the way through the middle of February. But then, suddenly, there is this shift that happens around mid-February when Mars leaves Sagittarius, leaves your 4th house, and moves into Capricorn, moving into your 5th house and basically meeting up with all of those other planets that are already in your 5th house. Thus, putting even more emphasis and more focus, but also, potentially, a little bit more tension on some of those 5th house topics of children, self-expression, or creativity, but also, pleasure or sexuality and the role that that plays in your life. So we’re gonna have Mars transiting through that sign of Capricorn for a-month-and-a-half, I believe. And that can bring issues involving either putting much more energy towards that area, but also, potentially, experiencing tensions there in some way, which, in a worst-case scenario, can sometimes mean issues involving like strife or separation, or if you have children, potentially, problems with children. Sometimes it can be a period where you’re just not getting along as well with your children as other times in your life, or in which they might be doing something that’s particularly annoying or particularly problematic. So for those of you with day charts, this is gonna be a little bit more of a problematic transit, whereas those of you with night charts, the Mars transit may not be a huge deal necessarily. Cuz Mars tends to be a little bit easier for people with night charts.

So what’s weird though is on the very same day, on the 16th of February, Mercury stations retrograde. And it’s actually stationing retrograde in Pisces, which is your 7th house. And if you look at the exact degrees in the specific chart around those days, what’s interesting is that it actually stations retrograde very close to Neptune, which is similar to what it did in early 2019. So here’s the chart for February, and there is Mercury stationing retrograde here at 12° of Pisces conjunct Neptune at 17° of Pisces. So this is happening in your 7th house of relationships. And the conjunction with Neptune—between Mercury and Neptune—is problematic, cuz it kind of amplifies the potential for miscommunications or misunderstandings. For you, because this is happening in your 7th house of relationships, it could mean that there’s some sort of miscommunication or misunderstanding within the context of relationships or partnership in general. So if you’re in a relationship, if you’re in a significant, long-term marriage or partnership of some sort, or even if you just had like a business partnership, you might wanna be extra careful from the middle of February through early March. Be extra careful about communicating things precisely and accurately, which, normally, is something that you’re already sort of prone to wanting to do if you have Virgo rising and Mercury is the ruler of your chart. But it’s gonna be extra important during this time, just because of the potential for misunderstandings or miscommunication. Or in the worst-case scenario, Neptune can sometimes indicate like actively being deceived or issues with truth versus deception. So you might wanna be careful, like if you were entering into a contract or something, to be a little bit careful at that time because things might not be as clear and might not be as straightforward as they seem. And sometimes it’s better, unless you absolutely have to—sometimes you absolutely have to proceed with plans like that during the Mercury retrograde, and there’s nothing you can do. In which case, you just hope for the best. But if you have some wiggle room, then it might be better to sign any contracts or do major business partnerships after the retrograde rather than right during it or right before it, just as a general piece of advice, or a general tip. So it’s interesting that for whatever reason those two transits in February start the same day, right in the middle of February, where you have the Mercury retrograde in your 7th house of communication, and you have Mars going into the 5th house, which has to do with children and sexuality. So there could be some sort of connection there or some sort of romantic theme that’s going on for the Virgo rising people, starting in mid-February. But yeah, just keep an eye out for both of those transits.

So the Mercury retrograde is halfway finished already by the 25th of February, and then we move into March. And what’s interesting is that Mercury doesn’t stay in Pisces during the retrograde, but it actually retrogrades and falls back into Aquarius, into your 6th house of work and health and service, starting on the 4th of March, before it eventually slows down again stations direct in late Aquarius on March 9. At which point, the Mercury retrograde is largely over. So with Mercury retrograding in your 7th house of relationships, and then falling back into your 6th house of health and work, there could be something that you thought that you had finished, or you thought was a one-time deal, but for some reason you have to return back to it, and you have to revise or revisit something pertaining to your work or your health that came up a few weeks prior to that time, just before the Mercury retrograde period. Sometimes it might be like a series of events that start in February that you think is finished, but then you have to come back and return to it during the course of March, when Mercury returns back to or starts retracing its steps in that sector of your birth chart.

So that’s really the main thing for March. The other thing that’s notable—that’s the main thing for February. But with March, what’s interesting is that the Mercury retrograde in Aquarius, when it stations direct on the 9th, it’s actually queuing up an important set of transits that are actually gonna set in much later in the month from an entirely different set of planets. So the first one is that Saturn makes its first ingress into Aquarius, and into your 6th house on the 21st of the month of March. So this is the beginning of a long-term, three-year transit. And this is just a little preview of it that we’ll get for a few months, between March and June, when Saturn just barely dips into that sign, but then retrogrades not too long afterwards, and then gets back out of the sign and goes back into Capricorn for the second half of 2020. Then, eventually, what will happen is that Saturn will return back to the sign of Capricorn. It’ll finish its run through Capricorn and return back to the sign of Aquarius at the very end of the year, in December of 2020. So this little few-month-period of Saturn dipping into Aquarius is just kind of a preview of a much longer-term, two-or-three-year transit that we’re gonna be having, starting at the end of the year. So let me give you the exact degrees of that. It’s kind of important to visualize this ingress of Saturn moving into Aquarius because what’s weird about it is that it happens almost simultaneously, at the end of March, with Mars moving into the same sign. So here we can see Saturn moving through 28-29 Capricorn. And then it slips into Aquarius, here, at the very end of the month. And then just a few days later, Mars also enters into Aquarius. And then those two planets form a conjunction in the first degree of that sign, it looks like at the very end of the month.

So let me throw the chart for April up. Cuz this is basically like straddling the border between late March and early April, this ingress. And that’s the focal point of when you’re really gonna start to feel it, with both of those planets moving from your 5th house of children into the 6th house of health and work, and also, subordinates. So here’s the significations for the 6th house from the Significations of the Houses Poster that I released recently, where it lists the traditional significations of the 6th as things like illness, injuries, work, and subordinates, or basically, employees, especially if you own a business, or if you act in a role where you’re the boss over somebody in some capacity in your life. So those are some of the major themes or some of the major topics that are gonna get activated, both in terms of the long-term Saturn transit. Saturn moving into your 6th house can either—it can sometimes indicate a period that’s a little bit more challenging, or where some obstacles arise within the context of your work or within the context of your health. But that doesn’t necessarily have to be the worst-case scenario. It can just bring up a period where you have to start putting more emphasis on that area, and you have to start putting more hard work into it, where maybe previously there were some things that you let slide. So for some of you, especially, the Saturn transit will be a little bit more difficult for people with night charts, whereas the Mars transit will tend to be a little bit more difficult for those of you with day charts. And that’s one of the reasons why I’m thinking that the ingress—when both of those planets move into the same sign—for pretty much everyone with Virgo rising, it might coincide with some sort of initial obstacle that arises in your life, either in the context of health matters or in the context of your work, that has to be addressed and dealt with at that point or in the subsequent weeks. So for some of you, due to the Mars transit, that can be kind of frustrating or kind of irritating, whereas the Saturn transit can be feeling a little bit laborious or potentially a little bit depressing, cuz it’s kind of like slowing things down. So the good news is that Mars and Saturn are not both gonna be in that sign permanently. Cuz Mars will just be transiting through there for a month or so before it leaves and that’s kind of over and done with. But I think it’ll become clear really quickly, towards the end of March, at the beginning of April, exactly what that transit is about for you and what the potential obstacle is that you have to overcome or have to address in your life in one of those two areas during the course of it.

All right. So this is taking us into April. In April, we have the Jupiter-Pluto conjunction in Capricorn. One of the positive sides of Saturn getting out of Capricorn and Mars getting out of Capricorn is it kind of just leaves Jupiter in there, in that sign, in your 5th house, by itself conjoining Pluto. And the tendency for Jupiter is to want to expand and confirm and stabilize things, whereas Pluto tends to exacerbate or tends to sort of blow up anything that is relatively minor and turn it into a much bigger thing. So you may want to expand very rapidly at this time. And that’s kind of a fun transit, having Jupiter going through your 5th house. For some people, it could be growth and development in the sphere of children, which could mean like having children, or having some new development with respect to your children that’s positive. For other people, it could be tied into some of the 7th house stuff we were talking about earlier. And it could be just the expansion of like romantic relationships and just having a more positive period for relationships. Especially with Saturn having left your 5th house, and therefore, some of the things that were holding you back or restraining you in some way being removed from that area of your life, and instead, what’s primarily left is just Jupiter. So it seems like a very fun period, or kind of a lighthearted period in some sense, as long as the Saturn and Mars stuff in your 6th house isn’t too much of a distraction. So other than that, not a lot of other major stuff. There’s just the Pluto station at the very end of April, which, again, is just emphasizing some of the Jupiter transit significations through the 5th house.

This takes us, eventually, into the month of May. And, in May, Saturn stations retrograde in Aquarius. So this is gonna be one of the first really important turning points. Again, I was saying that this Saturn ingress into Aquarius—this is just a preview transit of a longer-term, two-or-three-year transit that’s really gonna get going in December of this year. But when Saturn stations here, I think that’s gonna be a pivotal point where whatever the main theme is that you’re gonna be dealing with in the sphere of either work or health matters over the next few years, that station is really gonna emphasize that, and it’s gonna make it clear what that sequence of events, or what that theme is that you’ll be dealing with. So, interestingly, only two days later, Mars wraps up its transit through that very same sign, through your 6th house, and moves into your 7th house of relationships. So this could be a little problematic, cuz Mars can put more energy towards relationships, or mean that you have to put more focus on that area and expend more energy on the sphere of relationships. But Mars moving into your 7th house could also indicate about a month-long period where there could be more tensions in relationships than there were previously. So Mars can sometimes signify where we encounter strife or discord, or sometimes like fighting. And when it goes into the 7th house, sometimes there’s a propensity towards more strife or more conflict in the realm of partnership compared to other times in our life. So that’s one of the potentials for that transit.

Around the same time, like, literally, the same day, Venus is actually stationing retrograde in the sign of Gemini, which is your 10th house of career. And Jupiter is stationing retrograde the following day in Capricorn, in your 5th house of children and pleasures and sexuality. So some of this might be connected, cuz it’s happening so quickly, or it’s happening so close together. But the one that’s probably most important is the Venus retrograde stationing in your 10th house. So a Venus retrograde can sometimes force us to revisit things from the past. For you, since this is happening in your 10th house—the 10th house primarily has to do with your career, your reputation, and your public life, as opposed to your private life, which is the 4th house. So sometimes a Venus retrograde in the 10th house can force you to revisit what your public reputation is and how you appear to the world in general, and ways that you might want to retool or reconfigure just how you’re putting yourself forward, especially in terms of your career and your overall life direction. So some people might have major career changes at this point. And they’re not necessarily negative ones. They could be very positive ones that just are provoked by having a period of reflection and a period of rethinking what you want to be doing and how you want to be doing it in your life. So if this is gonna be an important transit for you, some of the people with Virgo rising may have experienced something similar to this about eight years prior, or there could have been a similar sequence of events that could be connected eight years ago, which is the last time that Venus went retrograde in Gemini, in the same sector of your chart, in the 10th house. So that was in 2012. So go back in eight-year increments, cuz basically every eight years Venus will go retrograde in approximately the same spot in your chart. See if it was a major transit for you, and see what topics—especially any that came up within the context of your career—may have come up during that time, and that will tell you whether this will be an important transit for you, that will be happening starting in May.

All right. So those are the major things that are happening in May, and that’s gonna take us forward to June. The Venus retrograde is pretty long. So it happens—it starts in the middle of May, but it lasts all the way to the end of June, and it doesn’t station direct until June 25. So that’s kind of a long-term transit. All right. Let me take a look at the live chat. How is everybody doing here? Good? All right. Thanks for joining me today. All right. Let’s move on to June. So a lot of stuff starts happening in June. June becomes one of the busier months and one of the more pivotal months of 2020 because we move into the second part of eclipse season at this point. So halfway through the year, we start hitting a bunch of eclipses. The halfway point in the Venus retrograde cycle, one of the pivotal turning points, is the 3rd of June. Two days later, we get an eclipse, a lunar eclipse, which takes place in the sign of Sagittarius on the 5th of June. This is happening in your 4th house of your home and your family and your living situation. So there’s some sort of culmination of events and some sort of spotlight gets shown on your 4th house of the home and family and living situation at this point. This is important, and it’s probably not a one-time event, but instead, the nodes—the North and South Nodes of the Moon—are moving into that axis. And so, we’re gonna start moving away from eclipses happening in your 5th house of children and your 11th house of friendship. We still have a few more eclipses that are happening in that axis, but things are gonna start to shift over the next year to your 4th house of your home and living situation and your private life and your 10th house of your career and your reputation and your overall life direction. So this is one of the first eclipses that we see when that shift really starts to manifest. And for some reason it starts out with a culmination of events in your 4th house, somehow pertaining to your home and family and living situation, or, potentially, your parents, since the 4th house is also the major house that’s associated with both parents. Whatever that event is, it may not be a singular thing, but instead, it’s gonna open a window of time where bookmarks or like chapter-marks are gonna start and end in six-month increments. So whatever is initiated or comes to a culmination at that time will be revisited six months later, I think around the time of December.

Later that month, in June, on the 18th, we have a Mercury retrograde station. I believe it stations in the sign of Cancer, which is your 11th house of friends. And what’s interesting about that is this happens right before there’s a solar eclipse in Cancer, which is also in your 11th house of friendship. So, I believe, this is the last of a series of solar eclipses in Cancer. So, on the one hand, my keyword for solar eclipses is they represent great endings and great beginnings. So, for you, this is some sort of great ending, but also, a great beginning when it comes to the topic of friends in your life, as well as the topic of groups or alliances in general, and the role that that plays for you in your broader life, or sort of contributes to your life in general. So we have not just that eclipse, but for some reason, there’s also a Mercury retrograde that’s taking place in the same sign, that starts earlier, in the previous week. And so, there may be some sort of revisiting of something that happened in the past that you have to go back and look over again. It may have been a miscommunication that happened within the context of your friends or your groups. Or it may be somebody that you fell out of touch with, that you reestablish contact with during the course of this Mercury retrograde and eclipse cycle towards the end of June. So the Mercury retrograde starts on the 18th. It reaches its middle point where whatever the issue was that arose starting around the 18th, at the Mercury station, starts to be resolved by the 30th of June. And then, eventually, Mercury stations direct about halfway into July, on about the 12th of July.

So those are two of the major things. Eventually, Venus stations direct on the 25th, as I mentioned. And then the last major transit that we have to mention for the month of June is the Mars ingress into Aries. And this is important because this is actually the sign that Mars is gonna go retrograde starting in September. So normally, Mars would just spend like a month or so moving through each sign of the zodiac, in each house of our birth chart. But what’s gonna be happening here is that Mars at the end of June moves into Aries and then eventually slows down there and ends up spending several months moving through that sign. So the 8th house is kind of a tricky house. It is traditionally the house that has to do with mortality and all things surrounding mortality, which includes things like inheritance. But the 8th house can also have to do with financial matters that belong to other people in your life. So that can sometimes have to do—if you have a partner, it can deal with the partner’s finances or financial matters involving your partner. It can also deal with other topics like debt and taxes and money that is owed to other parties in your life and what role that plays in your life. For some reason when Mars goes into a sign like this, it can create some irritations or some challenges, or, potentially, even some strife surrounding those topics. And this is emphasized even more this year just because Mars is going retrograde in that sign. So it’s gonna slow down, almost like it’s playing the same note over and over again on like an instrument or something like that, instead of its normal thing of just zipping right through that sign. So it may require additional focus, or it may open up a sequence of events where there’s sort of like a debacle that you have to address or deal with over an extended period of time in the second half of this year. Cuz basically from this point forward, in the entire second half of the year, Mars is gonna be moving through that sign and through that sector of your chart.

All right. So that’s the end of June, and that brings us to July. Let me take a look at the chat. So has anybody been experiencing—? So we’re gonna return back to and I’m specifically curious if anybody’s had any experiences with the Saturn transit through the 5th house so far—since we’re about two-thirds of the way through that, since we’re about two years into that at this point—and if there’s been any instances in terms of children, or interesting examples in terms of children at that point so far. So I’ll wait and maybe read some of the comments later. But it looks like we’ve got about 80 people here. Thanks everyone for joining us today. All right. Let’s jump into the following month. So July opens with two major things, and they’re in the same sign. So one of them is that Saturn retrogrades back into Capricorn, which is your 5th house of children and sexuality. But there’s also an eclipse, a lunar eclipse, that takes place in the same sign just a few days, on the 5th of July. So this is the last eclipse that’s gonna take place in Capricorn. It sort of brings to completion a series of eclipses in that sign, and a series of developments that have been going on for a couple of years now. At the same time, with Saturn returning back into that sign of Capricorn for the next five or six months—between July and December—it’s sort of coming back to make sure, in some instances, that you got the lesson or got the point of whatever that transit was about through your 5th house. Whereas in other instances, it can just be coming back to do some cleanup work to wrap up the sequence of events that started with Saturn moving into your 5th house back in December of 2017.

So I remember some past instances of Saturn transits. I had a friend who had Saturn go through his 5th house, and they had an unexpected child with his partner and that caused greater strain on their relationship, but also, just the strain of like having a child that was not planned over the course of that two-or-three-year period, as they got adjusted to and tried to deal with the implications or ramifications of what that meant for their life. And that was really intense for that first two-or-three-year period that Saturn was going through that sign and through the 5th house. So that can give you kind of an example of something that could happen in that instance, but there’s sort of a range of significations or a range of different manifestations or ways that that can manifest. At this point, it’s probably not bringing up something new in your life, but instead, it’s something you’ve already been dealing with for a few years now, not just with Saturn, but also, the eclipses taking place. So it’s probably best just to reflect on it and make sure, as you’re moving forward, that this is something that you’re not gonna have to come back to at some point in the future, but instead, you’re doing the best with it that you can. Because Saturn really tends to reward responsibility, and responsibility is a huge theme of Saturn, which can sometimes be a drag. But it can sometimes be necessary and important to develop or learn how to develop a better sense of responsibility, not just with respect to people, but also, sometimes with respect to, in the 5th house, creative pursuits. Like learning how to give form to and become better at expressing yourself in a way that is genuine and in a way that is effective. So some people I’ve seen with Saturn going through the 5th house like take classes. If acting is their form of self-expression, then taking an acting class and then reaping the rewards from that, while also putting in the hard work for that, is sort of necessary. Another person I’ve seen was like a painter who took some painting classes in order to be better at doing that. So basically, just bringing structure and bringing some form of self-discipline to the area of creative self-expression is one of the more positive or constructive manifestations of a transit like this. And starting at the beginning of July, this is the final chance that you have, or the final pass of Saturn over the next few months, to make a push to do that in the most constructive way possible.

All right. And then I think there was some debate about the eclipses. So we’ve got the Sag eclipse, we’ve got the Cancer eclipse, and then we’ve got another Capricorn eclipse. Okay. So then that’s pretty much it for July. Then we move into August. There’s not a ton of stuff going on in August in terms of outer planet transits. Of course there’s some standard inner planet transits that happen every year around this time, like the Full Moon in Aquarius, the New Moon in Leo, planets moving through Virgo. Like Mercury goes into Virgo, your home sign, or your rising sign, on the 19th of the month. And the Sun, of course, goes into Virgo on the 22nd of August, like it does around this time every year. The only major outer planet transit is Uranus stationing retrograde on the 15th of August at 10° of Taurus. So let me put the chart for that up, just so we can see the exact degrees involved. Because this is definitely gonna be important for those of you that have planets at about 10° of the fixed signs. Because this is the furthest that Uranus has gotten into Taurus, it’s really gonna be covering new ground for the first time. And there’s been this buildup ever since Uranus went into Taurus over the course of the past year or two that might culminate for some of you that have planets around 10° of fixed signs. So here’s the chart with Virgo rising. And this is, again, that Uranus transit through your 9th house of education, of religion, of beliefs, but also, of travel and exposure to foreign people and foreign cultures. So some of you might take a trip, or there might be something surprising that comes out of an interaction with somebody from a foreign culture. There could be something related to your belief system or even your political philosophy that is disrupted or changes unexpectedly around this time. This is obviously part of a much longer-term transit, like I said before. But just if you have anything around 10° of the fixed signs, I would really pay attention to that station as being one of the most important and most pivotal things that’s happening in August, right in the middle of the month.

All right. So this takes us to September. September is really focused primarily on the Mars retrograde. So the Mars retrograde really gets going at this point. It slows down in Aries towards the end of the sign—I think around 28°—and then it stations retrograde. So, again, this is happening in your 8th house of shared resources and mortality. Mars can tend to—especially for people who were born during the day, with day charts—can tend to bring up conflict in that area. So it doesn’t have to be worst-case scenario. Sometimes it’s a conflict that is necessary, where if there’s something that you need to do to stand up for yourself in that area—if somebody’s kind of screwing you financially, or if there’s a business deal that’s not going well—sometimes you have to do what you have to do in order to make sure things are balanced and on a level playing field. Of course, you wanna be careful not to go overboard because sometimes getting into a needless conflict could lead to much more long-term strife or separation with somebody financially, that might not necessarily be beneficial for you. But it’s, you know, gonna be up to your own judgment to figure out what the situation is in your specific instance.

So one of the things that’s interesting about the Mars retrograde is if you look at the degrees, it’s actually gonna be—when it stations, it’s gonna be stationing square Saturn very closely. So here’s the chart, and here’s Mars stationing at 28° of Aries in the second week of September. And notice that Saturn is at 25° of Capricorn around that time. So Mars stations pretty close to it, creating this sort of tension between these two areas, potentially, in your birth chart of other people’s money or shared resources in the 8th house and the 5th house of like children and creative expression and sex and sexuality. So there could be some sort of tension between these two areas for some reason, which seems like an obscure area. But all sorts of different manifestations—like any possible manifestation of placements or houses that there can be, there will be. And if you pay attention to astrology for long enough, you realize that there can be all sorts of weird overlaps that, initially, you can only see sort of archetypally. Like, here, us looking at the 8th house and the 5th house. But then sometimes there can be real, obvious, like practical manifestations of those things. So one of the things that I’m seeing here, that could be a possible one for some people, for example, is like issues surrounding like child support, for example, because the 5th house is children. We have Saturn transiting through the 5th house. But then, also, Mars is going retrograde in the 8th house of other people’s money or the partner’s money, indicating some sort of tension between the partner’s money and the topic of children for you. So issues surrounding like, you know, the partner and their relationship or financial support with respect to a child could easily be a topic that comes up as a point of tension at this point, just to give an example of how you might blend some of those archetypal meanings to form a specific delineation or a specific manifestation in a person’s life if they have children, or if they’ve had problems with a partner lately or had a split with a partner or what have you.

That’s kind of tied in with a transit later in the month. Two transits. One of them is Jupiter stationing direct in Capricorn, but also, Saturn stationing direct in Capricorn, more importantly, at the very end of the month, on the 27th of—or 29th of September. So that’s the final time that Saturn’s gonna station direct in that sign. And, to me, this looks like kind of a positive thing. Like there’s a final rectification of some of the issues that you’ve been going with, with respect to Saturn transiting through the 5th house and the topics it’s been activating relative to children or sexuality or self-expression. Jupiter stationing direct there in the sign, at the same time, sort of reemphasizes those more positive or constructive, or at least forward-moving significations and interpretations. And then both planets are gonna quickly start picking up speed before eventually making their way out of that sign and completing that transit by the end of the year.

So this is gonna take us forward into the month of October. And, all right, so the month of October. Lunations. Normal stuff. Full Moon Aries. New Moon Libra. Oh, yeah. This is the third Mercury retrograde of the year. Interestingly, it stations retrograde in Scorpio, in your 3rd house of communication and siblings and short-distance travel. There’s the significations of the 3rd house image. But then it retrogrades back into Libra later in the month. By the end of the month, Mercury is retrograde, and it makes a retrograde ingress into Libra on the 27th of October. So Libra is your 2nd house of finances and financial matters. Mercury does not station direct until the 3rd of November. So it seems to be tying together topics, 3rd house topics and 2nd house topics, for you, which could be things like siblings and financial matters. Or it could be travel and how you get around your city, like your car or your vehicle and financial matters. Somehow there’s something that you have to revisit. Or there could be some sort of miscommunication or snafu. Sometimes a technological snafu involving those two topics or those two areas of your life. But yeah, that’s the third Mercury retrograde. What’s interesting about it—and a little bit unique about it—is that Mercury stations at 10° of Scorpio, I believe, which is pretty closely opposite to where Uranus is at that point in time. Let me move forward in the chart just to double-check that. Here we see Mercury slowing down and stationing at 11 Scorpio opposite to Uranus at 9° of Taurus. So this Uranus, or this Mercury retrograde—and that Mercury retrograde station especially around the middle of October—could be something that’s a little bit more surprising, a little bit more unexpected, and a little bit more destabilizing than usual, with respect to especially those 3rd house topics, with Mercury stationing retrograde in your 3rd house of siblings, or communication, of education, and short-distance travel. But eventually, by early November, there’s a rectification of whatever those problems are, and you get things ironed out over the course of that three-week period, so that you should be in good shape or at least better shape by early November.

Other November transits. We start moving into—there’s two major ones. One of them is that Mars finally stations direct on the 13th of November after being retrograde for quite a while in your 8th house. So this could be connected a little bit with whatever’s going on with the Mercury retrograde that retrogrades back into your—that retrogrades back into your 2nd house of finances. The fact that Mars is retrograde and then stations direct in your 8th house of shared resources and other people’s money could be somehow connected to this. Mars stations direct on the 13th of November. So whatever the series or the sequence of events was that was causing problems or tensions or extra energy having to be poured into the area of shared resources or issues pertaining to mortality suddenly get cleared up, and you suddenly start to move forward again in that area, around the 13th of November. And then around this time we move into eclipse season again. So this is the second—the last set of eclipses. And at this point, it’s shifted completely from the Capricorn/Cancer axis and it goes entirely to the Gemini/Sagittarius axis, which is your 10th house of career, and your 4th house of the home and living situation. So the first eclipse is a lunar eclipse, which takes place in your 10th house, on November 30. And then there’s a solar eclipse in Sagittarius, in your 4th house of your home and family and living situation, on the 14th of December.

So this is a pretty big shift because it’s starting to highlight your career house, and there’s something that you started six months earlier, prior to the end of November, during the previous eclipse, which really reaches a peak or reaches some sort of culmination and starts to produce results at this point in terms of your career and overall life direction at the end of November. And there’s something about your career that starts making more sense, where the actions that you’re taking start having noticeable, visible, or tangible results starting in late November. So that’s not necessarily gonna be just a singular event, but it’s gonna be a sequence of events because that eclipse will open up a six-month timeframe. So that’s the lunar eclipse at the end of November. The solar eclipse that’s happening in your 4th house is setting some sort of new foundation, or planting some seeds that will grow and develop over the course of the next six months in terms of your home and your living situation and your private life. It could also have to do with something related to your parents, which are also major 4th house topics, and either things happening in their lives, or, somehow, your relationship with them. So if there was something that you wanted to start in that area—like if you wanted to start moving towards relocating to a new house, or doing something differently with your home and living situation—then having a solar eclipse in your 4th house might be a good time to start working towards that, from the eclipse in mid-December forward over the course of the next six months. It’s pretty common to start new things.

And I did wanna mention the Neptune station at the end of November. Even though it’s not hugely tied into anything, it is in your 7th house. And I mentioned that towards the beginning of the year, when we had that Mercury retrograde in Pisces, but I did wanna mention the Neptune station because we’re basically at the halfway point by now of this, I think, decade-long Neptune transit through your 7th house. And I wanted to mention it just because Neptune transits, wherever they are in a person’s chart, can bring a greater sense of like nebulousness and a lack of clarity, or a lack of certainty revolving around the part of life that they’re transiting through. And, for you, because it’s going through your 7th house, it may just be indicating a longer-term period of nebulousness or a lack of clarity or uncertainty surrounding relationships and partnership in your life in general. So there’s many different ways that that can manifest, but I just wanted to mention it because now that we’re halfway through, a lot of you that have the ascendant in the first half of Virgo will either experience the most important or most pivotal point of that, or you might be right in the thick of it right now. So you might really be experiencing some of that nebulousness surrounding relationships. For some of you that’s gonna be a little frustrating. Like you might be wanting greater clarity or wanting greater certainty when it comes to relationships during this time. I guess I would just say to have patience with yourself and realize that while that may be something that’s difficult to achieve now at this time in your life—where you may be struggling with some issues related to that—it’s something that may be cleared up in a few years’ time, especially once Neptune eventually gets out of Pisces. So don’t worry about it too much if it’s something that you’ve been struggling with to some extent over the past few years, as you’ve been going through that transit.

All right. So this is taking us to the very end of the year. And we have the final and actually the biggest planetary alignment that’s taking place in all of 2020. It takes place at the very end of the year, and it is the ingress of Saturn. It makes its final move out of Capricorn and moves into Aquarius on the 17th of December. And then just a couple of days later, Jupiter also does the same thing, where it moves out of Capricorn and completes its one-year transit through that sign. And Jupiter moves into Aquarius, where very soon after that, on the 21st, Jupiter and Saturn form a conjunction in the sign of Aquarius, in your 6th house of work and health and service. So this’ll be the start of a one-year transit of Jupiter through that sign, which is a more positive, optimistic, kind of hopeful transit, where there might be some job opportunities, or there might be some health things that are rectified or balanced out. At the same time, the Saturn transit’s a little bit more challenging. That’s opening up a two-year period where at the very least you might have to bring more structure and more discipline to the area of your work or the area of your health. So for some people discipline in terms of health matters can be things like having to like start going to the gym and paying attention to their physical health. It can be greater dietary restrictions or, you know, integrating things that just force them to do better in terms of maintaining their overall daily health. In some instances, the 6th house can deal with illness, as well as what it takes to treat illness or injuries. So there may be some issues that come up that are related to Saturn or have a Saturnian-type nature that you have to deal with during this time, over the course of this long, two-or-three-year transit of Saturn through that sign. But, luckily, with Jupiter moving in there almost simultaneously, I think for a lot of people whatever the potential problem or issue is that Saturn represents, there’s also a potential anecdote or a counterbalancing influence where you could get help dealing with that in a way that’s positive or constructive. So that’s much more optimistic than, you know, if it had been at any other time, where it’s just Saturn moving into a sign and then it’s kind of depressing or sometimes an overwhelming influence on a certain house. With Jupiter moving in there at the same time—especially for those of you with day charts—this could be a much more constructive and positive long-term transit, especially over the course of 2021, that entire year of Jupiter moving through that sign compared to what it could be at any other time. So that’s actually pretty productive and pretty positive. And it may, in fact, also be tied in with the shift of the eclipses moving into your 4th house and your 10th house and some of the career changes that that might indicate.

So sometimes people reach like the high point of their career, or they become more well-known or more publicly visible when eclipses start happening in their 10th house, like they’re starting to happen for you, and like they will continue to happen over the course of the next year. Having Jupiter and Saturn moving into your 6th house could indicate some changes or some reconfiguration of your workplace or what work means for you, and what it means to have a job or support yourself. So that could be somehow tied into what’s happening with the eclipses in your 10th house, in Gemini. But some of that’s taking us a little far afield, and it’s taking us into the future and into 2020, in terms of the long-term forecast of Saturn going through Aquarius, of Jupiter going through Aquarius, and of those upcoming eclipses that are gonna happen in your 10th house, which are largely in 2021. So I’ll have to—I guess I’ll have to save or postpone that till the next time that I do this yearly forecast, maybe at the end of next year, or at the end of this year. And we’ll return and talk about that again some more in the future.

All right. I think I did it. I think that’s it for this horoscope for Virgo and Virgo rising for the year—the entire year ahead of 2020. It looks like I’m at about an hour. So that is typically what the other ones have been taking, so that’s pretty good. I’ll check in with the livestream. How’s everybody doing? Thanks everybody. Thanks everyone for joining me. There’s a hundred people on the livestream right now. And I love some of the comments. It sounds like there might be some stuff going on in the news, but I’ll have to talk about that on the monthly forecast later this month. Yeah, and I think that’s it. All right. I need to do a few plugs to wrap this up. So one of the things is the artwork that I’ve been doing in this episode and using—like the Planetary Alignments, the Planetary Movements, and also, the Significations of the Houses—some of this is from podcast episodes and videos that I released recently on YouTube and on my podcast, The Astrology Podcast. But I also just launched a set of posters. So you can actually get a poster with all of that artwork, so you can see all of the movements of the planets at a glance in a single wall calendar, or in these three posters that I’ve released this year. So they come in a three-poster package. And you can find out more information at TheAstrologyPodcast.com/2020Posters. Leisa Schaim and I also recently released the 2020 Auspicious Elections Full Year Ahead Electional Report, where we went through each of the next 12 months, and we picked out one lucky date and one lucky electional chart to start a new venture or undertaking in each of the next 12 months, over the course of 2020. So it’s like a two-hour video that comes with a written report, as well as a few other PDFs and charts and other handouts. You can find out more information about that at ChrisBrennanAstrologer.com/2020Elections.

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All right. I think then that this is the end of this forecast for Virgo. So thanks everybody for joining me today. I really appreciate it. Thanks for all the comments and everything in the livestream. It’s a little hard to follow all of them, cuz I’m still getting the hang of doing this. But I appreciate everyone who joined us, and thanks everyone for watching this video. Please be sure to like the video, if you enjoyed it. Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel, if you wanna get notifications about new videos. I’m gonna keep working through each of the rising signs over the course of the next few days. It’s taken me a little longer to do these than I expected because I’m putting a little bit more into it than I anticipated. I was originally shooting for like 30 minutes each. But obviously, there’s a lot to go through here, so it’s taking a lot longer, but it’s been fun nonetheless. I’m now halfway through. So this is the rising sign for Virgo. So sometime later tonight, I’m gonna resume, after taking a little break, with the horoscope for Libra and Libra rising. So just subscribe to the channel to follow that. And I’ll see you guys again here in just a few hours. All right. Thanks for watching.